Английская Википедия:Chinese destroyer Lanzhou (170)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsLanzhou is the lead ship of the Chinese Type 052C destroyers (NATO code name Luyang II class). The ship was laid down in late 2002, launched on 29 April 2003, and commissioned in July 2004. The destroyer is active with the People's Republic of China's South Sea Fleet.
History
Construction on the ship began in June 2001 and it was launched in April 2003. She was commissioned in June 2004. At the beginning of 2007, Lanzhou and Шаблон:Ship conducted combat drills in the South China Sea,.[1]
On 23 April 2009, Lanzhou, as one of the newest ships in the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy), participated in a maritime military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese PLA Navy that was held in the Yellow Sea near Qingdao, Shandong Province.[2] In late May 2009, Lanzhou, the Type 071 amphibious transport dock Шаблон:Ship, Type 903 replenishment ship Qinghai Hu and Chao Hu, and other ships conducted a 17-day long-distance mobile combat drill in the South China Sea. The drill set three PLA Navy records of the longest three-way replenishment time, the largest single ship replenishment, and the largest dry basket replenishment.[3]
On 30 June 2010, Lanzhou and Kunlun Shan departed Zhanjiang, Guangdong to relieve the fifth Escort Task Group which was conducting the anti-piracy operations in Gulf of Aden and Somalia; the two ships along with the replenishment ship Weishan Hu formed the sixth task group.[4] Lanzhou and Kunlun Shan and sailed about Шаблон:Convert and arrived at the Gulf of Aden on 14 July 2010.[5] The anti-piracy rotation lasted 192 days and ended in January 2011. During the mission, Lanzhou sailed more than Шаблон:Convert and logged 4,280 hours of navigation time. She escorted 31 batches of 365 ships of various types and visited Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.[6]
In May 2014, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation drilling platform Offshore Oil 981 was drilling in the disputed Paracel Islands. Due to the disturbance of Vietnamese vessels, Lanzhou was dispatched along with China Coast Guard cutters to confront the Vietnamese vessels and guard the drilling platform.[7] On 25 May 2016, Шаблон:Ship, Lanzhou and Шаблон:Ship were seen conducting a replenishment exercise in the Sea of Japan.[8]
On 30 September 2018, the US Navy's Шаблон:Sclass Шаблон:USS passed near the disputed Spratly Islands and was intercepted by Lanzhou. US Pacific Fleet spokesman Charles Brown said in a statement that the Lanzhou closed within Шаблон:Convert of the front of the ship and forced it to maneuver in order to prevent a collision.[9] Brown called Lanzhou's approach "unsafe and unprofessional."[9]
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