Type 52 gunboat

Class overview
Operators People's Liberation Army Navy
General characteristics
TypeGunboat
Displacement50 tonnes (49 long tons; 55 short tons)
Length24.64 m (80 ft 10 in)
Beam4.25 m (13 ft 11 in)
Draft1.16 m (3 ft 10 in)
Installed powerInternal combustion engine
Propulsion3 × General Motors GM-165 Diesel engine
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range500 mi (800 km)
Sensors and
processing systems
1 × navigational radar
Armament
  • 37 mm (1.5 in) guns or
  • 25 mm (0.98 in) guns
  • 2 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) guns

Type 52 gunboat was a type of gunboat developed by China for the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in the early 1950s, and it was the first indigenously developed gunboat in the People's Republic of China (PRC) that entered mass production


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