Chinese destroyer Haikou (171)

Haikou

Haikou at the RIMPAC exercise in 2014
History
China
Name:	Haikou
Laid down:	30 June 2001
Launched:	30 October 2003
Commissioned:	26 December 2005
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Displacement:	7,000 tons
Length:	154 m (505 ft)
Beam:	17 m (56 ft)
Draught:	6 m (20 ft)
Propulsion:	CODOG, 57,000 shp
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Armament:	48 HHQ-9 long-range surface-to-air missiles 8 YJ-62 anti-ship / land attack cruise missiles 1 × 100 mm dual purpose gun 2 30 mm Type 730 close-in weapons systems 6 torpedo tubes 4 × 18-tube decoy rocket launcher
Aircraft carried:	1 helicopter: Kamov Ka-27 or Harbin Z-9C ASW/SAR

Haikou is a Chinese Type 052C destroyer class (NATO code name Luyang II class). The ship was laid down in 2002, launched on 30 October 2003, and commissioned in late 2005. The destroyer is active with the People's Republic of China's South Sea Fleet.

In December 2008, Haikou, along with another destroyer and a supply ship, deployed to the Gulf of Aden; this was China's first overseas naval deployment in 600 years.

In November 2011, the ship was on an escorting mission lasting for roughly a half year, against pirates in Somalia waters and the Gulf of Aden, along with the Chinese supply ship Qinghaihu and the Chinese ship Yuncheng.

On 9 March 2014, the ship was deployed in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.