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Published on Jan 25, 2017

Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy (ROC Navy) future Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG). Video by NCSIST.
Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) released an animation video showing the future guided-missile destroyer project for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy (ROC Navy) in combat. Renderings of this new project surfaced in June last year (as we reported). This new destroyer project is in line with Taiwan's new naval acquisition plan which was unveiled in late 2015. The new plan called for four new destroyers (among other vessels).

https://youtu.be/UQnbj7UsYVo
 
What are the anti-air and anti-ship missiles?
 
A DDGN? I don't see any funnels!
 
Petrus said:
What are the anti-air and anti-ship missiles?

http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2017/january-2017-navy-naval-forces-defense-industry-technology-maritime-security-global-news/4839-video-roc-navy-taiwan-future-guided-missile-destroyer-revealed.html

The destroyer is fitted with a Taiwan-designed Sea Oryx RAM-like weapon system on top of the helicopter hangar (last year rendering showed a Phalanx CIWS in this location) (visible at 0:22 in the video).

For Anti-surface warfare, the future destroyer is fitted with 16x anti-ship missiles (the video shows the new Hsiung Feng III missiles at 02:36).

For air-defense, in addition to the 16x short range SAM from the Sea Oryx system, there are 4x modules of VLS consisting of 8x cells each (for a total of 32 missiles) (visible at 0:50 in the video). Early design from last year showed a different configuration: One module forward and two in the middile of the hull (located in between the anti-ship missile launchers). The surface to air missiles depicted in the video could well be the new ship-based variant of the Tien Kung III which was tested for the first time in later 2016 by NCSIST.

Finally, the destroyer appears to be fitted with a BAE Systems 5 Inch Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun system (0:55 in the video).
 
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2017/january-2017-navy-naval-forces-defense-industry-technology-maritime-security-global-news/4839-video-roc-navy-taiwan-future-guided-missile-destroyer-revealed.html
 

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Pretty comprehensive history of the project

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Translated:
Ship name/User country New generation missile frigate/Republic of China
Chengzhao Country/ Chengzhao Factory
Dimensions (meters) Total length 138 Vertical length 125. Overall width 16.8 Design draft 4.5m
Displacement (ton) Designed displacement 4530
Power system/shaft horsepower
Speed (knots)
25 or more

Endurance (sea mile)
4500/16 knots

Detection/Electronic Warfare System
Fixed phased array radar *4
Three-dimensional air search radar *1
Jamming rocket launcher
The rest is unknown
Sonar Bow sonar*1
Unknown active/passive towed array sonar *1
Fire Control/Combat System

Crew
189

Shipborne Weapons
MK-75 76mm 62-diameter fast gun *1
Eight-unit vertical launcher (VLS) module *3 (loaded with Sea Bow III and Sea Sword II air defense missiles)
Triple-mounted 324mm MK-32 torpedo launcher * 2 (using MK-46 torpedo)
Quadruple Hsiungfeng II/III anti-ship missile launcher * 2
MK-15 Block 1B Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) *1
Remote control machine gun *2
Carrier aircraft S-70(CM)-1 anti-submarine helicopter *1

To be honest I mostly mean to sneer at the project. Is there navies that don't demand ships that is utterly impractical for the strategic situation?
 
The Taiwanese navy was still heavily influenced by the USN at the time it has to be said, including the latter navy's frankly quite delusional 'destroyers, not cruisers/systems not platforms' dogma which was still all the rage at that point in history.
 

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