Type 052D destroyer
The Type 052D destroyer (NATO/OSD reporting name: Luyang III-class destroyer) is a class of guided-missile destroyers in the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), and currently one of the most numerous principal surface combatant classes in service of the PLAN Surface Force. The initial variant of the ship class is known as Type 052D and extended flight deck variant is known as Type 052DL. The Type 052D is a larger variant of the Type 052C, and has flat-paneled active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, The Type 052D uses a canister-type (instead of 052C's revolver-type) vertical launching system (VLS), which is not limited to surface-to-air missiles, making it China's first dedicated multi-purpose VLS-equipped destroyer.