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Type 022 missile boat
Drawing of Chinese Fast Attack Craft 2208 - Type-022 Houbei-Class
Class overview
Name: Houbei class
Builders: Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, Shanghai
Operators: Naval Ensign of the People's Republic of China People's Liberation Army Navy
Cost: Estimates vary from $14.3 million to $50 million[1][2][3]
Built: 2004–present
In commission: 2004–present
Building: 60
Planned: 60
Completed: 60
Cancelled: ?
Active: 60
Laid up: ?
Lost: ?
Retired: ?
Preserved: ?
General characteristics ?
Class & type: ?
Type: ?
Tonnage: ?
Displacement: 220 long tons (224 t) full load
Length: 42.6 m (139 ft 9 in)
Beam: 12.2 m (40 ft 0 in)
Height: ?
Draught: 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)
Depth: ?
Depth of hold: ?
Decks: 1
Deck clearance: ?
Propulsion: 2 diesel engines @ 6,865 hp (5,119 kW) with 4 waterjet propulsors by MARI
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range: ?
Endurance: ?
Boats & landing
craft carried:
?
Complement: 12[4]
Crew: 12
Sensors and
processing systems:
Surface search radar: 1 Type 362
Navigational radar: 1
Electro-optics: HEOS 300
Armament:Anti-ship missiles: 8 C-801/802/803 in friction stir welded aluminium missile launch containers[5] or
Land-attack missiles: 8 Hongniao missile-2 long range land attack cruise missiles.[6]
Surface-to-air missiles: FLS-1 surface-to-air launcher with 12 QW class MANPAD missiles
• 1 × licensed copy of KBP AO-18 6-barrel 30 mm gun (AK-630) by ZEERI
Notes: Details remain speculative, very quiet as powered by jet repulsion (rather than propellers)

The Type 022 (NATO designation: Houbei class) missile boat is a ship class in the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. The first boat was launched in April 2004 by the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard at Shanghai. The boats incorporate stealth features and are based off an Australian-designed wave-piercing catamaran hulls that are more stable than other fast missile craft in high sea conditions.[7] Approximately 83 of these missile boats are currently in service with three flotillas having been produced over a span of seven years.[1]

Design[]

The Houbei class fast attack craft are China's entry into a growing list of missile-armed attack craft which include Finland's Hamina class missile boat, and Norway's Skjold class patrol boat. The Australian AMD cataraman design may mean as much as a 50% reduction in vessel speed penalty in high sea conditions (in which monohulls may only perform at half or less of their maximum capability). Further, seasickness and disorientation is significantly reduced, improving the combat readiness/situational awareness of the small-craft operators during such conditions.

In addition to the stealthy polygonal-designed superstructure with its stealthy gun mount, the Houbei has an advanced C4 datalink[8] that may represent some kind of capability to allow AWACS planes or other ships to vector the Type 22's missiles.

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