PLAN Fleet supply vessels

Blitzo

Blitzo

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davidau said:
It's a beauty. What's the empty tonnage? The full load tonnage? How many solid, liquid transfer stations?
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Given its dimensions (estimated from satellite pictures), I think a full displacement of between 45,000 tons to 50,000 tons is likely.
At present we do not know how many stations are present, we will only know once they're done with fitting out.
 
by78

by78

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Some more photos of the new supply ship, with fairly good resolutions...

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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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Imagine this unit replenishing 3 x Type 071 LPD simultaneously

One either side and one to the rear wow that would be awesome

That's would be over 100,000 tons of PLAN warships
 
FORBIN

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They go for get in 2020 11 supply ships : 8 x 903/903A, 1 x 908 and 2 x 901, 905 have 35 years soon retired.
 
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FORBIN said:
They go for get in 2020 11 supply ships : 8 x 903/903A, 1 x 908 and 2 x 901, 905 have 35 years soon retired.
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Yes... and I personally think 8 903/As and 2 901s and 1 908 is probably the minimum.
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on my site about the Chinese replenishment fleet, it is very possible that they could build and commission a larger number of such ships by 2020, such as 4 901s and 12 903/As by 2020 instead of 2 and 8 respectively.

Chinese Navy: by 2020, it is likely that the Chinese Navy will retire its initial two 905 class AORs, but it will also commission the last three 903A AORs (possibly as early as 2017) to make a complete class of 2 x 20,500 ton 903 AORs and 6 x 23,000 ton 903/A AORs. The single 908 class AOR of 37,000 tons will remain in service. The single 901 class AOE will likely be followed by at least one sister ship, which, if launched in 2016, will likely be quite capable of being commissioned well before 2020. Thus, it is reasonable to estimate the Chinese Navy will likely have 2 x 45,000+ ton 901 class AOEs in service by 2020 at the minimum.

Therefore, a conservative estimate of the Chinese Navy’s commissioned replenishment fleet in 2020: 2 x 20,500 ton 903 AORs + 6 x 23,000 ton 903A AORs + 1 x 37,000 ton 908 AOR + 2 x 45,000+ ton 901 AOEs = 306,000 tons

However, it is also possible that the Chinese Navy may commission additional construction of 903As and 901s greater than the above estimate, and based on previous construction rate, a higher estimate of a commissioned replenishment fleet in 2020 is: 2 x 20,500 ton 903 AORs + 10 x 23,000 ton AORs + 1 x 37,000 ton 903 AOR + 4 x 45,000+ ton 901 AOEs = 488,000 tons
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When we compare those two potential fleets with that of other navies/services...

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Franklin

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The Type 901 AOR is another step towards building a carrier battle group. China's existing AOR's of 20000+ tons are too small for that task. You would need to take two of them along for a carrier battle group.
 
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