{"id":6333,"date":"2020-01-13T21:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2020-01-13T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:23:43","slug":"chinas-most-advanced-destroyer-formally-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/chinas-most-advanced-destroyer-formally-enters-service\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s most advanced destroyer formally enters service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China\u2019s Navy commissions First-of-Class Type 055 guided missile Destroyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Navy has commissioned its most powerful and advanced surface warship, Nanchang, in the port city of Qingdao.<\/p>\n<p>The Type 055 destroyer Nanchang is China\u2019s first fourth-generation guided-missile destroyer.<\/p>\n<p>The 180-meter-long, 20-meter-wide Type 055 with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons has been referred to by the Pentagon not as a destroyer, but as a cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>Defense observers believe the commissioning of China\u2019s first fourth-generation destroyer is a step forward\u00a0for Beijing that seeks to operate farther from its shores into the western Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s first 10,000-ton-class Type 055 destroyer is equipped with new air defense, anti-missile, anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The warship\u2019s arsenal includes 112 vertical-launch missile cells capable of launching a combination of surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, land-attack missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The Nanchang was launched in June 2017 and made its public debut in a naval parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the PLA Navy last year.<\/p>\n<p>It is\u00a0considered\u00a0as one of the world\u2019s most advanced ships of its type \u2013 behind only the US Navy\u2019s stealth warship Zumwalt class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Navy commissions First-of-Class Type 055 guided missile Destroyer The Chinese Navy has commissioned its most powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[137,45,6,90],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-defense","tag-navy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/China-Destroyer-Nanchang.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1E9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}