Because the weapons of the United States always come out to show off, resulting in little attention to European weapons, Europe's largest amphibious assault ship, the Italian quasi-aircraft carrier "Trieste", is a very famous amphibious assault ship, let's take a look.
Italy is a country surrounded by the sea on three sides, naval construction is the focus of Italy's military industry, many islands make amphibious operations more important, for landing and looting and reinforcement of troops, etc., can be effectively deployed and achieved, can adapt to the complex terrain of the mainland and can also carry out mobile and flexible response, as a naval power, Italy, is still very strong in the Mediterranean region.
With a displacement of only 33,000 tons, the Trieste is the largest amphibious assault ship in Europe, and its quasi-aircraft carrier is still a little smaller, even the compact one is somewhat reluctant.
But fortunately, it is complete, able to carry tanks, fighters and landing forces, etc., which has a very important role in the formation of the Italian Navy, and it is assembled as a small aircraft carrier.
The amphibious assault ship Trieste belonged to the first amphibious assault ship of the Italian Navy, because of its advanced improved functions and more complete combat performance, in order to replace the aircraft carrier Garibaldi, which was still in service.
This aircraft carrier is Italy's first light aircraft carrier, capable of undertaking a variety of integrated tasks such as anti-submarine missions, maritime patrol and reconnaissance, search and rescue, and can also carry up to 18 combat helicopters, and the overall role is a kind of anti-submarine aircraft carrier.
Because of the design time and construction age, as early as the mid-eighties of the last century began to enter service, many functions and internal structures are the characteristics of the last century, obviously lagging behind the modern weapons, in order to change and improve the overall combat capability, the Italian Navy built the "Trieste" amphibious assault ship to replace the aircraft carrier.
Although the Aircraft Carrier Garibaldi took a long time to build, the overall performance and quality are still remarkable, although it is only a small aircraft carrier with a displacement of 13,000 tons.
However, the overall design is still very rigorous, the speed reaches 30 levels, the endurance is 7000 nautical miles, the total length of the aircraft carrier is 180 meters, the width is 33 meters, the flight deck is 176 meters long, the hangar area reaches 110 square meters of superstructure 5 floors, the total area of the room is 700 square meters, of which 120 square meters is the information comprehensive command room used by the combat intelligence department, which can accommodate 825 people, and use 4 gas turbines of General Electric as power.
In terms of weapons and equipment, 40 mm caliber artillery and anti-ship missiles and eight-pack aviation missile launchers have formed a very strong fire attack network, carrying up to 18 anti-submarine airborne early warning helicopters, using long-range radar, and the effective distance is about 220 kilometers.
The sonar anti-submarine system was also installed, and on the whole, the small italian aircraft carrier had the characteristics of combat flexibility and complete equipment.
After all, it has been in service for nearly 40 years, and the design and construction and function of the high-tech aircraft carrier have changed greatly, and now it is ready to take over the first aircraft carrier, the amphibious assault ship "Trieste", with a displacement of almost three times his displacement.
And the use of double island design, this design first appeared on the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier, the use of double island mainly depends on the completion of the main task is what is, the command island can observe the scheduling of the landing of the carrier-based fighter or the rear position, with the combat capability of navigation command and aviation command.
The "Trieste" has a full load displacement of 33,000 tons, a length of 245 meters, a maximum speed of 25 knots, slightly inferior in speed, with a large garage of 1200 square meters, can carry 60 tons of tracked vehicles, but also can carry main battle tanks, helicopters and other combat weapons, can accommodate up to 800 combatants.
Since it is an amphibious combat ship, the 50-meter-long and 15-meter-wide dock of the Trieste can provide ample space for 2 large air-cushioned landing craft, or 4 mechanical landing craft.
It is also equipped with a state-of-the-art vertical launch system capable of launching short-range missiles, as well as 9 helicopter take-off and landing points and 6-day machine guns to strike small target ships.
The Trieste is equipped with a state-of-the-art dual-band active phased array radar capable of long-range vigilance and detection.
In addition, Italy's Otto Melera 76 mm naval gun, in the left and right sides and tail have been installed, this kind of arrow gun has a fast rate of fire volume, small can carry out air defense, anti-missile and land attack advantages, is a popular weapon on the naval ships of many European and American countries, if in accordance with the process of using dense array artillery attack as a way of defense,
Generally like France or the United States are using some short-range "dense arrays" as defense, 3 76 mm naval guns can complete a more powerful short-range strike, and can achieve rapid shore and attack on the target, if necessary, can be supported by artillery.
"Trieste" uses two MT-30 gas turbines imported from the United Kingdom, and two diesel engines to form a diesel-fired joint propulsion system.
Sufficient power can ensure that he can sail at high speed at sea, and a ship with a total weight of only more than 30,000 tons is enough to use such a large amount of power.