The European bison has a width of 25.6 meters, a length of 58 meters, a full drainage of 555 tons, can transport 150 tons of various materials at a time, has a maximum speed of 63 knots (110 km / h), can drive smoothly under the sea conditions with a wave height of 2 meters and a wind speed of 12 m / s, and can break through the wall-shaped water barrier of 1.6 meters high. It can carry a force of 360 people, can transport 8 Type 04 infantry fighting vehicles, or 3 Type 96 tanks at a time, and can reach a range of 300 nautical miles.
Equipped with 2 30 mm АК-63 guns (3,000 rounds of ammunition base, using МР-123-02 fire control system), 8 sets of "Needle-1M" or "Arrow-3M" anti-aircraft missile systems (4 combined launchers, 32 ammunition bases), 2 sets of 22-tube MC-227 type 140 mm non-guided munition launchers (ammunition base 132 rounds, using ДВУ-3 fire control system), 20-80 mines (the number depends on the mine type, Use of a manied mine-laying system).
The Bison is equipped with five high-temperature gas turbines with a power of 10,000 hp each, three of which are responsible for driving three large four-blade variable-pitch propulsion fans located at the stern, which are 5.5 meters in diameter and can propel the hull forward and control the direction; the other 2 MT-70 gas turbines drive four lifting fans with a diameter of 2.5 meters, side by side in the middle and rear of the hull, providing the power required for the air cushion lifting fans, which is also where the bison can ignore the 2-meter wave.
Shipboard P-784 communication equipment system by medium wave, short wave, ultra-short wave transceiver, speed transmission equipment, automatic command and control system, navigation warning system service receiving mechanism, navigation equipment mainly has 2 sets of surround view warning radar, magnetic rotary compass, satellite navigation equipment, meteorological navigation equipment, receiving indication system, gyro stability system, radio directionalizer, day vision and night vision sight, etc., in addition to equipped with modern radio electronic countermeasure equipment, battlefield survivability is quite strong.
Strong self-armament is enough to deal with shore-based firepower, rocket artillery is also enough to support the landing force, which is not available in all air cushion landing craft in the world at that time, the fire delivery of the bison platform is far faster than the call for landing ship support, and the huge body can land on the shore of the unstructured fortifications, such as the coast with breakwaters and wave-blocking blocks.
The mainland will purchase a total of four landing ships of this type, and the Ukrainian "Sea" shipyard will be responsible for the construction of the first two landing craft, and provide the Chinese side with a full set of technical information on the boat, including the engine, and the Chinese side will produce the remaining two in China with the assistance of Ukrainian experts, spending a total of about 315 million US dollars.
But then there was a change in Ukraine, experts also withdrew to the country, the construction of follow-up ships can only rely on ourselves, but then we built our own 726 air cushion landing craft, this type of ship is more in line with the mainland's national conditions, can be used with the 071 type dock landing ship and the new amphibious assault ship, the mainland's ocean-going force projection is a huge help.
Although we only built 4 bison landing craft, but with the height of each type of landing ship, enough to form a huge combat force within the first island chain that is enough to destroy all incoming enemies, the birth of the European bison is because of the special terrain of the Soviet Union, the Black Sea. Caspian Sea. The Baltic Sea is a closed sea or a relatively narrow sea, in order to project troops in this sea, the Soviet Union gave birth to many strange weapons such as bison, Caspian Sea monster ground effect aircraft.