I’m pretty sure What he meant was MBT entering and leaving well deck
This is a very old photo we have seen many times
He doesn't said that But regardless if Yuyi float then they should be able to get in and out of type 71 with no problem unless the driver is blind or grossly incompetent. Here is Henri K write up on type 726A commissionhttp://
Eastern fleet boosts amphibious capabilities with 4 new hovercraft Type 726A
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The Chinese navy continues to make talk about it at the beginning of this year, which looks set to be busy. Indeed, even before having admitted to the active service
and then
, she had in fact already put in service four class
726A type air-cushion landing
craft. , a Chinese equivalent of the LCA (
Landing Craft Air Cushioned ) of the US Navy, Wednesday, January 10 in a naval base of the Eastern Fleet.
These 150-ton hovercrafts go hand-in-hand with the
Type 071 Landing
Barge , moving more than 20,000 full load tonnes, which were designed after the multiple crises in the Taiwan Strait at the end of the last century.
Each Type 071 LPD can carry at least two Type 726A in its submerged slab, which can then reach a landing site over a distance of 320 km, at a speed beyond 60 knots, to project up to to 50 tons of men, equipment and equipment, which is more than enough to cross the Taiwan Strait with a medium tank
ZTZ-96A for example.
4 Chinese "LCAC" Type 726A were admitted to active service by the Eastern Fleet of the Chinese Navy on January 10 (Image: 东海 舰队)
This admittance to the "massive" active service of rapid amphibious means of projection in the Eastern fleet, which is responsible for the direction of Taiwan among others, is not a surprise in reality.
On the one hand, as already mentioned last year in our file "
", the shipbuilding industry in China no longer have any technical obstacles today in front of them once the motorization problem is solved, to produce as many of these fast boats as the Chinese Navy deems necessary. And strange as it may seem, the first Type 726 with Ukrainian turbine and the following Type 726A with Chinese turbine are all designed not by historical naval consultants, but by the Chinese aviation group AVIC.
Secondly, although the Type 071 "mothership" was designed at the time specifically for the theater around the island of Taiwan, as was the
Type 22 stealth-fired missile launch boat, which gradually retreated "prematurely" in the past. However, the Chinese navy has decided to continue production of this class of LPD to strengthen its amphibious capabilities, pending the arrival of
Type 075 , a new class of helicopter carrier with apron of about 35 000 tonnes.
Today, there are three Type 071s that are operational within the Southern Fleet and dedicated to situations in the South China Sea, plus another building in the Eastern Fleet that will also recover two more units currently in arrangement at Shanghai.
The Chinese navy will therefore need, mathematically, at least 6 × 2 = 12 hovercraft Type 726 / Type 726A for the composition to be complete.
A Type 726A has just left the raft of a Chinese LPD Type 071
With these four new units put into service at the beginning of the year, which are registered 3236, 3237, 3238 and 3239 respectively, plus the buildings from 3320 to 3323 and 3330 to 3332, we can expect other types 726A out of Jiangnan Changxing shipyard in Shanghai to equip all Type 071 in service and those to come.
Henri K.
