Type 076 LHD/LHA discussion

manqiangrexue said:

Funny joke but with a hexagonal drone shelf where individual triangular pans/stages can slide apart and out whether by internal mechanism or by forklift, this could store a ton of them in the hangar. Of course, there will be a system using at least 2 elevators on opposite sides of the hangar where one moves spent drones from the deck down to one side of the hangar for maintenance/rearmament, then when ready, they are dollyed on one of the triangular pans to the middle where they are stacked and then again dollyed and separated to the other side near the second elevator for deployment readiness. It has to be an organized system that separates drones that are scheduled to fly, drones that are being maintained or needing maintenance, and drones in between for mass storage, not just of bunch of randomly piled drone towers, some drones needing to get upstairs for missions, some of which need maintenance and everyone struggling to get them out.

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HailingTX20 said:

That isn't really accurate. Drones like GJ-21s are as complex, sometimes even more complex, than regular fighter aircrafts. Storing and seeing them as weapons between sorties is plain wrong. That can be done with loitering ammunition or other extremely small and low impact drones, but not with relatively huge and complex stealth drones, especially not in a naval environment that stresses any aircraft even stronger.

They are maintained and checked just as regularly as any normal, manned fighter. They can't and won't be stacked.

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Tomboy said:

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Some estimation on deck capacity of 076 when conducting flight ops. Approx 8 GJ-21s and 3-4 Z-8s. Source is watermarked

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