
With a displacement of 12,000 tonnes, the size of the Type 055 is much closer to a cruiser than a destroyer and the largest surface combat vessel China has ever built, excluding the Liaoning aircraft carrier which was refitted from a hulk purchased from Ukraine.
Beijing claims the Type 055 equipped with 128 vertical launch tubes would be the equivalent of a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built around the Aegis Combat System. Compared to China's current Type 052D guided-missile destroyer, however, the Type 055 looks more like the real "Chinese Aegis," the report said.
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