China's first area-air-defence destroyer class, combining a four-face Type 346 AESA radar with 48 vertically launched HHQ-9 missiles and serving as the technological bridge to the Type 052D.
The Type 056 Jiangdao is China's mass-produced light corvette, built for coastal patrol, escort and anti-submarine warfare and adapted for coast-guard and export service.
China's 25,000-tonne amphibious transport dock, combining marine, vehicle, landing-craft and helicopter lift for regional assault, logistics and far-seas operations.
China's YJ-18 is a ship- and submarine-launched cruise-missile family combining subsonic cruise with a supersonic terminal sprint, with reported anti-ship and land-attack variants.
Liaoning and Shandong are China's first two operational aircraft carriers: conventionally powered, ski-jump ships derived from the Soviet Kuznetsov design and used to build the PLA Navy's carrier-aviation capability.