Do Horizon carried a mixture of Aster 15/30 or as the case in the British Type 45 will be equipped with missiles Aster 30 only?

Here the missiles of the Horizons are described:

The DCNS Sylver A50 vertical launch system within PAAMS, installed immediately forward of the two guns towards the bow deck, has 48 cells for both the Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles. The Sylver launcher ensures that each round is aligned to within 1mrad. The maximum rate of fire is up to six rounds a second.

The Aster missile carries an inertial computer with datalink and an active J-band Doppler radar seeker. Aster 30 has a range of 100km, Aster 15 a range of 30km. The missile has manoeuvrability of up to 62g, achieved through the use of the PIF/PAF guidance system.

It’s not true.
Horizon and T45 have the same 3D long distance radar, the Thales S1850.
😉

The only remaining reason would therefore subsidisation of the respective arms industries? British radar for British ships?

Good photos. Thank you.

Does someone has more information about this ships? Especially about the differences compared with the British type 45 Daring class?

Are the three 7,62 cm guns to be used as CIWS?

That’s the reason I want to build it at 1/700 scale, and for that I need all the schemes, plans, photos and data I could possibly gater.

It is possible to built the two first Chinese Soveremennys in 1/700 – Hangzhou and Fuzhou – with the new Dragon kit. This kits also includes the Chinese pennant numbers.

You need for a conversion to the new Taizhou perhaps Trumpeter’s kit of the Kirov class, because it includes nice Kashtans-CIWS (if you buy Kirov or Frunce, you can still built her).

Dou you have good drawings of the Taizhou which shows the new after superstructure?

seems to have a ciws gun fore n aft -vs- RAM + gun in KDX3. more details on its armament would be great.

In Weyer Warships of the World – Fleet Handbook 2005/2007 there is written, that Atago will have 1 12,7 cm, 2 Phalanx, 3 2 cm, 8 Harpoon, 2 VLS with SM-2 III B, 6 32,4 cm torpedo tubes and helicopters.

Any idea what time it’s going to be launched?

At approximately 14:25 today (1.2.2006). Look here:
http://www.type45.com/

Yes it is, but Taizhou is apparently the name of 137. This picture comes from one of the newsletters I subscribe to, in a later letter, two days later, they put the name Keito, together with an article on the helicopter operation.

137 is Fuzhou. It’s the former Russian Vedumcivyji, which was bought unfinished by China in 1997. I know no sources, which state, that the Project 956E destroyer has the name Taizhou. The name of the Project 956E destroyers are Hangzhou (136) and Fuzhou (137) (e.g. Weyer’s Warships of the World 2005/2007).

Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Taizhou, Langzhou, Guangzhou, Harbin, Qingdao, Shenzhen and Wuhan are all names of Chinese cities. Therefore at least the new Chinese destroyers are named of cities. But where is Keito? For me this sound Japanese – not Chinese.

But there is one point, which would be an argument for you: what is the name of the second Project 052C destroyer? Haikou – as most sources state – or Xining (e.h. Weyer’s). But again both Haikou and Xining are Chinese cities.

HMS Euryalus at Gallipoli? Hmm, the armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus of the Cressy class was in the Mediterrean 1915-1916. She had a Battle Honour for the Dardanelles 1915.

Euryalus was built in 1899-1904 by Vickers, Barrow. She was used in the First World War in the North Sea and for the protection of Atlantic convoys in 1914. Then she was at the Dardanelles. Afterwards she was employed in the East Indies as Flagship. A concersion to a Minelayer in Hong Kong was abandoned in 1918 and she was sold in 1920. Euryalus was broken up in Germany.

Euryalus was 143,9 m long, 21,2 m wide and had a displacement of 12 000 ts. She had two 23,4 cm, twelve 15,2 cm, twelve 7,62 cm and three 4,7 cm guns and two 45,7 cm torpedo tubes.

Photos are here:
http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/images/hmseuryalus2.jpg
http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/images/hmseuryalus.jpg