The mainland navy has a new type of equipment, which is the Type 071 dock landing ship, with a displacement of 25,000 tons, a length of 210 meters, a width of 28 meters, and a sailing speed of about 22 knots per hour, which is equivalent to traveling 40.7 kilometers on land per hour.
At the extreme, the speed will continue to increase, and it will be able to go faster. The combat advantage of the landing ship is that it is amphibious, can adapt to a more complex battlefield environment, provide cover and support for the navy's landing, and show more powerful assistance in transporting and delivering weapons and troops.
The weapons to be transported include tanks, armored infantry vehicles, and artillery and other weapons needed for various landing operations, with a range of up to 6,000 kilometers, and the long-distance transportation of various emergency weapons and troops will provide the ability to supply in a timely manner.
The 071 dock landing ship that has been put into service in the mainland is the Yimengshan ship with the port number 988, which was built by the mainland's Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard and officially commissioned in Shanghai Military Port in 2016.
This type of dock ship can carry 4 domestic air-cushion landing craft to achieve rapid execution of tasks by ships when necessary, the speed of the hovercraft can reach 60 nautical miles per hour, reaching the efficiency of 300 kilometers of endurance, and the load capacity of such a hovercraft is very prominent, and it can carry a main battle tank with a load of less than 60 tons.
Or switch to carry 10 warrior off-road vehicles for land warfare, in the limited deck space, reasonable arrangements can take off and land two medium-sized helicopters at the same time, the comprehensive force value and the comprehensive value of the transport force, can achieve a more ideal state.
The Type 071 dock landing ship is equipped with a helicopter take-off and landing deck, which is capable of supporting the rapid reaction of fighters and reinforcement operations. The 071 landing ship can carry 500 to 800 people, and at the same time can carry two Z-8 helicopters to carry out various reconnaissance and combat missions. The installed armament consisted of a 76-mm naval gun and 4 close-in guns of 30 mm caliber. In terms of other types of weapons, there is also more room for loading, and it can also be adjusted with different models of troops and weapons, and a certain number of troops can be dispatched and increased or decreased.
Compared with other types of landing ships, the most prominent feature of the 071 is that it has a huge dock compartment, which can accommodate more ships and hovercraft, and can also support sinking and floating operations.
At present, the mainland has built four ships of this type, and three ships are already in service with the mainland navy, playing their own defensive role. In the comparison of the functions of the dock landing ship, it can be seen that the carrying capacity is the mainstay, and when it is necessary to transport ammunition and materials, the delivery capacity is also quite powerful, of course, the type of transport weapons also has a focus, such as the transport of air defense weapons.
As an important amphibious platform of the mainland navy, the comprehensive strength of the 071 landing ship should not be underestimated, although the overall carrying capacity is limited, but when increasing the number of ships, it can achieve better combat results, enhance the density of firepower and the intensity of destruction.
Although the 071 dock landing ship is not amazing in size, it belongs to a warship of more than 10,000 tons, but it is equipped with a dazzling laser directional weapon, which can achieve actual combat, the efficiency is very high, and the power of the strike is also very large.
Laser weapons have advantages that cannot be ignored when defending against UAVs and small ships, and the strike efficiency is very high.
On the basis of amphibious operations, it can also achieve a richer type of ships, forming a part of the full lineup of the Navy, and the research and development team of the mainland Navy has recently made technical upgrades and improvements to this landing ship, to achieve a more perfect setting, to provide more powerful technical support, so that the power of laser directional weapons has been greatly improved.
For example, some netizens recently discovered that the pictures on the Internet show that the mainland's No. 986 071 landing ship has the details of installing shipborne laser weapons behind the main gun, and such weapons are successfully deployed in sea trials, which are bound to defend the navy against air defense attacks, as well as the attack of anti-ship missiles, as well as the attack of suicide drone swarms, which can play a very good strike effect.
Some netizens said that compared with other large ships, ships of about 20,000 tons obviously do not have enough advantages when confronting the enemy's saturated firepower. However, in terms of defensive deployment and duty, our navy must have its own advantages when it takes the initiative to attack and strike at unmanned aerial vehicles and other aircraft deployed by the enemy, so as to achieve active strikes, take the lead and slow down the enemy's reaction.
As a new type of ship that is still being upgraded by the mainland navy, the Type 071 will develop a more comprehensive and powerful model in the future dock landing operations, and will also contribute to the overall deployment of the navy.
The Type 071 dock landing ship is the largest model in volume and displacement built by the mainland, and it is also one of the important ships of the continental navy.