China’s Type 055 is a flexible, powerful vessel potentially with a unique weapon (anti-ship ballistic missile), and room for growth. It's a "super" ship. This briefing focuses on the benefits of having large VLS cells, and the room for new weapons that might be deployed by China in the near future. For this briefing, comparisons are made with the Russian Slava class Cruiser and the U.S. Zumwalt class Destroyer.

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Keywords: Type 055, Type 052D, Zumwalt, Slava, Project 1164, Moskva, Atlant, Laser, anti-ship ballistic missile, hypersonic, rail gun, Liaoning, Shandong, PLAN, naval modernisation, modern warships, China, Chinese military, PLA watching, defence, cruise missiles, area air defence, Russian Navy, USN, U.S., VLS, Mk41, large