The PLAN LCAC Type 726 Yuyi Class

Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Hyperwarp said:
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I take it this is the 2nd Ukraine built Zubr for the PLAN?

Funny, we have talked about this for 6-7 years, and now it is happening fast.

With the one being built in China, soon there will be three. With all four, the PLAN will have a significant new sea lift capability of their Marines.
 
kwaigonegin

kwaigonegin

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Jeff Head said:
I take it this is the 2nd Ukraine built Zubr for the PLAN?

Funny, we have talked about this for 6-7 years, and now it is happening fast.

With the one being built in China, soon there will be three. With all four, the PLAN will have a significant new sea lift capability of their Marines.
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Does anyone know how many APCs and Marines the Zubr can carry? Can it carry a battalion of Marines or soldiers?
 
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no_name

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From wiki: :p

The Zubr landing craft has a cargo area of 400 square metres (4,300 sq ft), and a fuel capacity of 56 tons.[2] It can carry three main battle tanks (up to 150 tonnes), or ten armoured vehicles with 140 troops (up to 131 tonnes), or 8 armoured personnel carriers of total mass up to 115 tonnes, or 8 amphibious tanks or up to 500 troops (with 360 troops in the cargo compartment).

At full displacement the ship is capable of negotiating up to 5-degree gradients on non-equipped shores and 1.6m-high vertical walls. The Zubr remains seaworthy in conditions up to Sea State 4. The vessel has a cruising speed of 30-40 knots.
 
Blitzo

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Jeff Head said:
I take it this is the 2nd Ukraine built Zubr for the PLAN?

Funny, we have talked about this for 6-7 years, and now it is happening fast.

With the one being built in China, soon there will be three. With all four, the PLAN will have a significant new sea lift capability of their Marines.
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Pretty sure that's the first.

We've seen the second and third under construction in china, but that's the limit ATM. Still, if they can pump out a couple of them every year for the next few years, PLA will have a nice solid fleet of fast response vessels excellent for Taiwan, SCS or first island chain scenarios.

I wonder how well these beasts can stand up to a javelin or hellfire shot
 
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Zerozen

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These bememoths are useful after an assault deploying critical weapons and supplies.
nothing beat a helicopter in faster response in deploying marines on those small islands.
 
kwaigonegin

kwaigonegin

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ladioussupp said:
Each Jaeger weigh several thousand tons. And it can be lifted by few choppers.

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that is actually one of the few 'technical discrepancies' that I didn't care too much for in that movie. Even if they had use a couple dozen I would've been ok even though it is still far from reality but to use like 5 or 6 Chinooks to lift 2000 tons? In reality it would've taken at least 100 chinooks to lift 2000 tones.
 
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chuck731

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asif iqbal said:
No helo can carry 150 tons
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Reminds me of an april fool's joke a few years back, when a local Newspaper in the capitol of Wisconsin ran a fake story saying the retired battleship USS Wisconsin had been airlifted by 20 helicopters to a lake next to the capitol of Wisconsin for permenent display. Enough yokels bought the story that the Newspaper had to run a retraction.
 
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