China's Navy Wednesday launched a new 10,000-tonne domestically designed and produced destroyer. The vessel, of the Type 055 class, is the first of a new generation of destroyers equipped with new ...

The Type 055 large destroyer Zunyi of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy fires its close-in weapon system during a combat exercise in the Pacific Ocean in February 2025. Photo: Screenshot ...

China's Type 055 is one of the largest warships in the world, but in the simulation the US fleet boasted eight Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

March 20, 2025: In early 2025 the Chinese navy in cooperation with Huazhong University scientists and technicians conducted a simulated battle between a Chinese Type 55 destroyer and eight U.S. Navy ...

Type 055 destroyer "sunk" by LRASM missiles During a simulation conducted by the state-run North China Institute of Computing ...