Not a whole lot of news here, just an interesting photo of the destroyer in three stages of development. They look pretty similar to US destroyers, using a single ship gun, powerful air-search radars (not as good as our AEGIS or SPY-1 radars, though), VLS tubes, and a CIWS setup. Still, good on China for taking it up to defend their borders.
[url]http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eastern-arsenal/new-chinese-052d-destroyers-3-row-shipyard[/url]
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They won't be using these to "defend" their borders, more likely to continue their attempted annexation of all those pacific islands they are disputing w/ the Thais, Japs and Fillipinos