Western ship industry in Beijing said China will continue in the coming years is the 054 vessels built missile frigate, the third ship in the same type of ship should be equipped with Chinese-made HQ16 ship-to-air missile vertical launch system, which is a new Ship-to-air missile designed a range of nearly 20 km. Relevant trials have been completed. The third reason why the construction of ships 054 ships pushed back slightly, mainly waiting for the final state inspection HQ16. There are also indications HQ16 may first be installed on a 053H3 experimental results on the assessment.

The HQ7 will no longer produce the 054 new generation of destroyers. Russia is helping China design of ship-to-air missile vertical launching system, called the 978 project. This project plans to use a similar kind of vertical launch system KLINOK equipped Chinese naval ships. 978 Engineering and HQ16 not known ship-to-air missile vertical launch is what relationship? China has been carefully KLINOK combat system, but not large quantities. There may be a vertical launch system HQ16 get the help of Russia, but the missile itself was developed by China itself. KANWA learned that China has been testing the two ship-to-air missile vertical launch systems, one is HQ9, launched by the cold way, it is also with the RIF in the shape similar launch system, a transmission unit for the six emission channels, the latter 7. While another has been test form into the vertical launch system with the latest developments in Russia SHTIL-1 similar to the vertical launch system, using a square structure, thermal emission method, called 3S90E1.

HQ16 may also dress the current large-scale equipment HQ7 war ships, including the 052A, 051B missile destroyer and two frigates has been finished in 054. But Beijing's western shipbuilding industry sources claim that unless a war or facelift plan is usually carried out in the ship in service about a decade.

HQ16 whether to use phased array radar of the movements are worth noting. Ukraine's military-industrial sector, authoritative sources confirmed that they eventually help China design a variety of types of ship-borne phased array radar, including the installation of the 170 phased array radar, the ship's design work has also been Krant Design Bureau, technical cooperation, cooperation program from six years ago, producing mainly by the Chinese themselves, Krant itself has no production capacity. Russia's shipbuilding industry sources claim that China could ship the 170 phased array radar called the "Sea Lion." 170-ship plan the first two stages of production, the production of the next batch of the 170-ship Navy will be carried out only after trial and error.

Seen in this light, China 6000-7000 tons manufacture of a large ship has come to an end. Based on "balanced development of the fleet," the needs, the current plan features a large ship can be found, the next batch of large-ship construction program will be the way to go on the same scale.

HQ-16 is a joint research and development with the new Russian air defense missile system. It has been defined as a medium / low-medium-range surface to air missiles, the effective height of 100 to 20,000 meters battle between the response speed 6-8 seconds, a missile can be attacked eight air targets simultaneously, the probability of the Kill 0.9, using the most advanced vertical launch technology and phased array radar; guided warhead for the compound, of self-propelled vehicle. Russia will be used to replace the existing fleet of SA-17 (Grizzly), pre-production in China will match the HQ-17 - Chinese version of the Tor-M1 air defense missile system tracked a comprehensive field instead of "middle-aged people," the HQ-61A Among them, the latter function the same as fighting close range and HQ-7 is likely to pose a threat to its market share. At present, the missile program has entered the advanced stages of development.