NEW CLASS CHINESE DESTROYER ESCORT

Created: 5/28/1966

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INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM

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NEW CLASS CHINESE DESTROYER ESCORT

DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE

SC No. 6

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Directorate of Intelligenceay6

INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM"

New Class Chinese Destroyer Escort

1. The Chinese Communists apparently haveew destroyer escort (DE) which is identical in lengthoviet RIGA-class DEh appears toodified version of the RIGA

beforeut may have doveloped serious problems which required the Chinese to pull it back up on the building waysajor overhaul On the other hand, it is possible that the ship was only partially completed bynd that the activity on the building ways in5 representedand checking of underwater parts prior to sea trials.

hatever its origin, there is nothing tothat the Chinese are about toajorprogram of large surface ships, and no such

truction. Chinaediura-

ponents supplied by the USSR. Dcspiu?majorthe superstructure, thebasically

the same as that onraises the

possibility that the Chinesema^Taveifth RIGA hull and added to it some design features of their own.

12. The ship appears to have improvedand definitely has increased antiaircraft The ship remains basically an obsolescent one, however, because its gun systems do notigh rate of fire and its antiaircraft weapons do not have automatic control.

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