What does a hospital captain look like? The Peace Ark looks like a cruise ship except for a slightly more lifeboat. The Captain of America's Mercy-class Hospital is like an oil tanker. Since hospital ships theoretically have war immunity and should not be attacked, hospital ships are often designed on the basis of civilian ships in order to reduce manufacturing costs as much as possible, but the Indonesian Navy of the Thousand Islands has 3 hospital ships based on dock landing ships, Dr. Sukhalo, Semarang, Hiddin Sudy Rossodo and other 3 hospital ships that can launch vertical horizontal mixed rescue from shore to land.
Chinese Navy Peace Ark/Daishan Island
Follow the plate to find out why these 3 imaginative hospital ships exist? Beginning to bring patterns into the ditch, this article is written closer to the overhead series. I look at the last one who didn't find out that these three ships really existed.
Indonesia land area of 1913578.68 square kilometers, population of 262 million, as a tropical country, Indonesia has rich resources, oil, natural gas and coal, tin, bauxite, nickel, copper, gold, silver and other mineral resources countless, coupled with the developed tourism and tertiary industry, Indonesia's GDP of one trillion or so, and Russia belongs to the same order of magnitude, per capita GDP and China's almost the same, but Indonesia as a country of ten thousand islands, his weakness is also very obvious, That's just too many islands! Indonesia has a total of 17,508 islands!
The relatively large islands are Kalimantan, Sumatra, Irian, Sulawesi and Java, etc., the area of these islands is large enough, the area of an island is similar to that of a province in China, with a relatively large economic hinterland, can plan a number of prefecture-level cities similar to China's administrative planning and even smaller provincial administrative regions, the road intertwined into pieces of development is relatively easy.
But there are 17,503 relatively small islands, and even some islands cannot be found on the map, that is, the relatively large islands that can be found on the map, the island area is similar to that of a city in China, coupled with the frequent earthquakes and volcanoes in Indonesia, so even Indonesia will spend a lot of money on infrastructure construction every year (at least more than half of Indonesia's international loans are used for domestic infrastructure construction). But the ills of poor infrastructure remain unsolvable. Lack of industry, agriculture is not developed, the future development of the small island is not developed, and even the basic livelihood problems, all make Indonesia a very headache, first of all, are Indonesians, even if there is racial discrimination and regional differences can not be too big, otherwise what to do with the local referendum?
In order to balance the economy, Indonesia needs to spend a lot of money on infrastructure every year to move towards primary forests, but as mentioned above, Indonesia has frequent earthquake volcanoes or tsunamis, and the relatively small islands are almost all over the water, that is, the infrastructure is still soaked in the water. Therefore, for Indonesia, earthquake relief is the national norm, if the wind and waves are calm in which year, the Indonesian government itself has to make a muttering, the earth will not be holding a big one, right?
However, the difficulty of Earthquake Relief in Indonesia is much greater than that of mainland countries, for mainland countries, a small county town or simply take Jiuzhaigou as an example, Jiuzhaigou landslide, China can raise materials at the first time, transport materials through land operation, and build temporary hospitals and residences in unaffected areas, and transfer materials from surrounding areas for earthquake relief.
Indonesian island
But what about Indonesia? Once an island suffers a geological disaster, either the island is basically paralyzed, it is difficult to drive vehicles, and the area of the island may be only ten square kilometers, it is difficult to find a place without disaster, because it is surrounded by the sea, and the relief materials raised from other regions must be transported to the affected area by air or land to reach the affected island.
However, there are not necessarily airports on the island, that is, most of the airports are abandoned, and the same is true for the ports, so before the Indonesian disaster relief, it is first necessary to repair the ports and airports, and it takes time to repair the ports and airports! After a geological disaster, time is life, and an hour late means more sacrifice.
The Four Kings Islands of Indonesia
Even if there is no geological disaster, because there are too many islands in Indonesia, uneven economic development is inevitable, and many islands are very small, so it is very difficult to support medical facilities. Therefore, for Indonesia, Indonesia needs a hospital that can run on long legs, and once a geological disaster occurs in a certain place, the hospital ship can get close to the affected area in the shortest possible time to treat the affected people.
In the selection process of the hospital ship, the Indian Navy found that the Tegadapune helipad landing ship purchased from South Korea in 2003 seemed to be a fairly suitable choice for the Indonesian Navy, first of all, the Tegadapune helipad landing ship, as a helipad landing ship, has a wide flight deck, can carry two helicopters, in terms of horizontal landing, it can carry two LPVP vehicle personnel landing craft, 13 main battle tanks or 40 armored vehicles and 500 landing troops.
Dr. Suharo
This means that the Taiga Dapune can carry a large number of medical vehicles and rescue speedboats, even if because the local infrastructure of the tsunami is completely destroyed, it is difficult for conventional ships to dock, and it can also cast the necessary shore-based landing function of the dock landing ship into a plough for the rescue of disaster victims, helicopters can go deep into the disaster area, and the landing craft can quickly transport ambulances or rescue vehicles to the shore to undertake the transfer of vehicles and rescue materials.
But the cost of using a dock landing ship to transform a hospital ship is bound to be high, so the Indonesian Navy, although it says that it has the idea of converting a dock landing ship into a hospital ship, it stops at the idea.
Indonesian tsunami
On December 26, 2004, 238945 people died or disappeared in Indonesia during the Indonesian tsunami! Such a tragic disaster made the Indonesian Navy quickly make up its mind to change the Telgar Dapune Helicopter Dock Landing Ship to a Helicopter Dock Hospital Ship, because the renovation project is relatively simple, so the modification of the Taiga Dapune is very fast, and the conversion work was completed in 2008 and was renamed Dr. Sukhalo. The Dr. Sokhalo hospital ship has played an indelible role in Indonesia.
In normal times, the Dr. Sokhalo hospital ship can berth in the harbor as a floating hospital, and when a local hostage disaster occurs, the Dr. Sokhalo hospital ship can set sail for the disaster area at the first time. Helicopters are used for disaster relief and material delivery in the depths of the disaster area, vehicle decks are used to carry ambulances and various rescue vehicles, and the landing craft carried in the dock cabin was originally intended to land so the draft is very shallow, but when it exists as a rescue ship, it can sail into the flood zone by relying on a shallow enough draft.
After using the Dr. Sokhalo Hospital Ship for some time, the Indonesian Navy considered the Dr. Sokhalo Hospital Ship to be very much in line with the current situation in Indonesia, so when ordering the Makassar-class dock landing ship, the Ship Iii Semarang Dock Landing Ship appeared as a hospital ship at the beginning of its birth.
Semarang
The Semarang Dock Landing Hospital is 124 meters long and 21.8 meters wide;
Displacement 7290 tons;
The maximum speed is 18 knots, the cruising speed is 14 knots, and the economic speed is 12 knots;
Self-sustaining force of 30 days, the maximum range of 10,000 nautical miles;
Crew: 120 crew members, 66 medical staff, up to 159 patients;
Medical ability: with general department, ophthalmology, dentistry and other outpatient clinics, with emergency wards, with CT scans and X-ray examination equipment, with isolation room;
4 ambulances, 3 mobile hospitals (OFE), 1 mobile decompression device (OFE),
Carrier-based aircraft: up to three medical helicopters in varying numbers;
Carrier-based boats: 2 Personnel Landing Craft (LCVP), 1 Hard Boat (RHIB) and 2 Ambulance Boats;
For hospital ships around the world, the Indonesian dock landing hospital ship is a great innovation, but the Indonesian Navy's dock landing hospital ship birth is a special factor, first of all, the indonesian dock landing hospital ship mother model is purchased from South Korea based on the Tagadapune helicopter dock landing ship or the subsequent model of the Tegadapune based on the improvement. The Taiga Dapune-class dock landing ship is a dock landing ship ordered by Indonesia to South Korea, the domestic market is very small South Korean military industry in the foreign arms sales, in addition to the use of civilian technology as far as possible to reduce the cost, but also will compress their own profits to enhance the competitiveness of the South Korean shipbuilding industry in foreign arms sales.
The Dock Landing Ship Taiga Dapune, a medium-sized dock landing ship with a full load displacement of 11,000 tons, is only $35 million! The 071E sold to Thailand sells for 130 million! One 071E can buy three TaigaDapune class or Makassar class... Of course, the inevitable result of the large use of civilian technology is poor damage resistance, but for countries such as the Indonesian Navy, where the defense pressure is relatively small, it is better to buy several civilian standard dock landing ships than to buy a dock landing ship that is several times more expensive than the military standard. Secondly, There are too many islands in Indonesia for Indonesia to build a group of hospital ships than to build a group of hospitals.
For the Indonesian Navy, the medical ship based on civilian ships and the medical ship designed on the Makassar-class dock landing ship are not much different in terms of cost, and the flexibility of rescue is one day and one, so it is better to add a little money to the dock landing ship as the basis for the transformation. In this way, the Indonesian Navy has two dock landing medical ships, and Indonesian hospitals have the ability to land at the top twenty levels in the world...
But the Indonesian Navy did not stop at landing medical ships in two docks, and on January 7, 2021, Indonesia launched the self-built Hospital Ship Wahidin Sudirohusodo, hull number 991...
Summary: Size of the Indonesian Navy Amphibious Landing Medical Vessel:
First ship, Dr. Sueharso (LPD-990)
Second ship, Semarang Semarang (LPD-594)
The third, wahidin Sudirosodo LPD-991
By the way, at this stage, the British Navy only has two Sub-Ocean class dock landing ships, which means that the landing capacity of Indonesian hospitals is stronger than that of the British Navy...
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