071 LPD thread
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re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft
I guess no. More precisely, the best/easiest way to get vehicles onto the heli-deck would be from the dock/wharf using the portside door ram, through the ship's inner vehicle deck onto the heli-deck. Since 071 seems to lack such a vehicle access route, they will have to crane the vehicles onto or off the heli-deck for parking, a time-costing process.
I guess no. More precisely, the best/easiest way to get vehicles onto the heli-deck would be from the dock/wharf using the portside door ram, through the ship's inner vehicle deck onto the heli-deck. Since 071 seems to lack such a vehicle access route, they will have to crane the vehicles onto or off the heli-deck for parking, a time-costing process.
joshuatree
Captain
re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft
If they end up doing this routinely, may make sense to build a barge that has on-ramps so the vehicles can simply be driven from pier up to landing deck.
If they end up doing this routinely, may make sense to build a barge that has on-ramps so the vehicles can simply be driven from pier up to landing deck.
re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft
They are using cranes to lift off vehicles parked on the heli-deck onto the dock.
The roro ramp does not help since it seems 071's lower inner vehicle deck and well-deck have no vehicle access route to the upper hanger/heli-deck where the trucks, bulldozers etc are to be parked.
They are using cranes to lift off vehicles parked on the heli-deck onto the dock.
The roro ramp does not help since it seems 071's lower inner vehicle deck and well-deck have no vehicle access route to the upper hanger/heli-deck where the trucks, bulldozers etc are to be parked.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft
Probably not, the rear ramp door is either too low or too high in which case it's probably too steep for anything to get in and out of the well deck which is deigned to flood to float assets and considering there's no roll on roll of feature of this ship loading onto the helo deck is really the only opition
Plus when that rear door is open it sits really in the water the accommodating port would have to have a very low pier which is unlikely
Probably not, the rear ramp door is either too low or too high in which case it's probably too steep for anything to get in and out of the well deck which is deigned to flood to float assets and considering there's no roll on roll of feature of this ship loading onto the helo deck is really the only opition
Plus when that rear door is open it sits really in the water the accommodating port would have to have a very low pier which is unlikely
kwaigonegin
Colonel
re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft
isn't that a HUGE design flaw that it doesn't have a roro side ramp to load vehicles/equipment? It would be very inefficient not to mention time consuming to lift one piece of machinery at a time using cranes.
isn't that a HUGE design flaw that it doesn't have a roro side ramp to load vehicles/equipment? It would be very inefficient not to mention time consuming to lift one piece of machinery at a time using cranes.
re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft
Ah right. I forget sometimes that the PLA do often park their vehicles on the helideck. Although in this case I wonder why they did so considering all the internal hull space. Perhaps that was used for other purposes for this voyage.
Ah right. I forget sometimes that the PLA do often park their vehicles on the helideck. Although in this case I wonder why they did so considering all the internal hull space. Perhaps that was used for other purposes for this voyage.
re: PLAN Type 071 LPD & its Landing Craft
Probably the lower deck is already jam-packed with vehicles of all sorts and 071's large heli-deck has to serve as secondary vehicle park.
Often for humanitarian missions, the cargo are usually many light vehicles, jeeps, trucks, bulldozers etc as shown in the Brunei pics. Far more in number than the 50 tanks a LPD's lower vehicle deck is designed to carry.
Probably the lower deck is already jam-packed with vehicles of all sorts and 071's large heli-deck has to serve as secondary vehicle park.
Often for humanitarian missions, the cargo are usually many light vehicles, jeeps, trucks, bulldozers etc as shown in the Brunei pics. Far more in number than the 50 tanks a LPD's lower vehicle deck is designed to carry.