071 LPD thread

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re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft

Jeff Head said:
And my son-in-law still serves. He's a CPO and was just accepted into an officer training program that will send him to school, make him an officer (LT JG at the end of that time) and have another 10 year commitment. He will retire with 23 years in 2025, maybe at a full Commander..

He made CPO in a little over 7 years...a real up and comer!

I can tell you that popeye's stories and experience still have great relevence, particularly on aircraft carriers.

Today's senior non-commissioned officers and officers alike would listen to him and his advise in a heart beat.

If forum members cannot see that...alls the pity for them. Most however recognize it very quickly, particularly those with any sea legs about them at all.
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Congratulation to your son-in-law Jeff. My guess is he's going into the Naval Officer Candidate School? Guys that are prior services and going into the officers ranks are always much more professional than say those that came straight from the academies and ROTC, IMO.
 
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hmmwv said:
...The fourth picture shows something more significant, and is actually related to 071. It's a containerized 300mm MLR module tested on Shichang, it's alleged that the launcher base doesn't penetrate any deck, and the container behind it houses rocket reloads and independent power supply and fire control system. Such system can be retrofitted to ships such as 071 (maybe clear some space on the bow deck) or 074 (open vehicle deck) to provide sustained fire support for the landing party, similar to a capability LPD17's original concept proposed.

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But something like that on a 071? Gauge by the size of it that module is about the size of a standard long shipping container give or take, the top deck of the superstructure doesn't seems to have space for it (or one that won't interfere the equipment there), so it'd have to take up some of the flight deck space then, but won't that go against the primary role of the 071 LPD - superior rotary wing operational assets?

Or as you said, clean up the bow deck space, but that's a lot to clean up...
 
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bd popeye said:
Thanks for that info and pictures hmmwv!

The link below has the best pix I've see to date of the PLAN sailors at work..at sea!

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I'm not spending any time downloading PIX from a flash player..
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Not trying to advertise but there are tons of pictures of PLAN's normal day to day operation in various thread at CDF, but you are right the truly good ones only started popping up in recent years, probably because PLAN starts to allow PLA Daily reporters to embedded on the ship during prolonged journeys. If I come cross some in the future I'll let you know.

tphuang said:
Thanks, I've been curious about PLAN's civilian container ships conversion plans.

read the recent CDF's entry on this
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Have you seen any kind of estimates on how many of these ships can be converted and operated on during times of war?
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I have no idea, but I'd imagine the number is decent as China sees the value of civilian ships through the Falklands and the first Gulf War. The two state owned shippers, COSCO and China Shipping both have defense mobilization offices in their headquarters to organize defense related issues. COSCO has over fifty ships with 5000TEU+ capacity, and I believe China Shipping is even larger. China owns many auto/passenger RORO ferries but dedicated RORO car carrier is very lacking, I believe COSCO currently only has two dedicated RORO ship, both are domestically built. However China did a lot of research into draw up plans to convert those ships as early as the 1980s, when they almost converted the 45,000t RORO Huayuankou into an aviation training ship. But the only example of converting a large commercial vessel is turning COSCO Zhuanghe into Nan Kang 865, a SSF hospital ship during a military exercise. 865_25_4012_9f3ff9dde670cd1.jpgThe ship has now returned to commercial service. Note the aforementioned examples are all imported ships, I think it's even easier now since they've got the detailed blueprints of domestically made ships.

MwRYum said:
Or as you said, clean up the bow deck space, but that's a lot to clean up...
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I think there are adequate space on the two sides of the gun platform, the only draw back is that you'll have to disable the decoy launcher.
 
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Nothing to suggest it's PSed... we've already seen a handful of photos with the 999 pennant number anyway.
 
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Nope

it is 528 re-painted for a TV-series drama about PLA Marines.
 
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528 is a Jiangwei class ship. That's clearly 568.
 
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