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This afternoon, the 8th 071-type integrated landing ship was launched at the Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard,
and separated from the 7th 071-type launch (at the end of December 2018) for less than half a year. This also created a huge load of more than 20,000 tons of full-load displacement. The shortest record of ship launch.
On the left is the No. 8 ship that has just been docked, and on the right is the No. 7 ship.
According to the observations of our military enthusiasts from the outside, the construction and service history of the 071 can be divided into three stages, and the “big” recognition features of the three stages in appearance are also the masterpieces of the Bobcats. To the "bridge front window wiper".
The 071 type integrated landing ship first ship 998 Kunlun Mountain ship, in the early stage only installed the wiper in the three windows in the front, and later increased to five; 999 Jinggangshan and 989 Changbaishan two ships use five different wipers in different layouts. The newly-listed 988 Mengmeng and the subsequently built Type 071 are equipped with wipers on all nine front windows.
An internal display model reflecting the original design of the Model 071, in accordance with the theoretical maximum loading capacity, placed 4 (actually 3) 726 air cushion landing craft in the docking bay.
As shown in the above figure, the self-defense weapon in the original design of the Type 071 first ship built in 2006 also includes a Haihongqi-7 ship-to-air missile launcher at the rear of the PJ26 76mm gun. However, on the actual completion of the 998 Kunlun Mountain ship, for reasons of funding and other reasons, the ship and air missiles were not actually equipped, but the electrical interface for preparing the missile launcher was left.
It can be seen that after the 998 ship is modified, a pair of wipers are added on the outside. Through comparison, many additional data link antennas can be found.
After the 998 ship was commissioned at the end of 2007, after more than two years of experience accumulation (including the ship's participation in the Aden Bay escort mission in 2010), CSSC 708 and Hudong Shipyard made many details on the design. In 2010, the second ship (999 ships) and the third ship (989 ships) were built, which made the South China Sea Fleet have strong amphibious combat capability at the end of 2012.
According to the experience of the construction of other main warships of our army during this period, the 071 model can already be regarded as a relatively mature warship. However, due to various reasons, the construction of its follow-up ship was stopped for several more years. Until the ship No. 4 (988 ship) was launched in January 2015, the ship was also the first type 071 equipped with the East China Sea Fleet. In addition to the wiper changes, starting from the fourth ship, the ship's electronic equipment has also been more comprehensively updated - after all, more than eight years have passed since the first ship was launched, and many old equipment may have been discontinued.
Since then, the construction progress from the fifth ship to the eighth ship has gradually accelerated, and the
No. 6 ship 987 has created a record of less than one year from launching to serving. And as the ship delivers a landing detachment to the Southern Theater Navy, the detachment already has four 071 (998, 999, 989, 987), so that the two 071 models being armed may be delivered to the Eastern Theater. A landing ship detachment of the Navy will
have four 071s in the strategic direction of the Taiwan Strait in the north and south of 2020 as the core of the detachment.
Judging from the actual combat training scenes in recent years, the 072 series as the landing command group and the three-dimensional landing delivery platform, commanding the 072 series of amphibious landing operations based on plane landing and delivery, has been in recent years. The basic operation. With the scale and ability level of the existing detachment, it is appropriate to use such a level of landing operations. If the self-defense firepower is improved, then we will have a ready-made solution.
According to many amnesty, the third batch of Type 071 was originally planned to be equipped with self-defense weapons in the way of Type 071E; but as we said before, in recent years our military landing ships and supply ships are on the deployment of self-defense weapons. It is a 071-type integrated landing ship and a 901-type large supply ship that can be used in ?. It can be used as a PJ13 6-tube 30mm near-anti-gun. It is considered to be relatively outrageous - although the anti-missile interception performance of PJ13 is far less than that of PJ12. Type 7 tube 30mm near anti-cannon, not as good as PJ11.
At the 2015 Abu Dhabi Defense Exhibition, China Shipbuilding Trading Co. demonstrated a foreign-funded dock landing ship model based on the reduced version 071. The self-defense firepower of the program has also been greatly simplified – but the foreign trade customers themselves may not Care about this
With the launch of the 071 Type 8 ship, the most attractive military product of Hudong Zhonghua is undoubtedly the 075 type amphibious assault ship under construction (exporting the old 054A/P missile frigate... It is estimated that it has been classified as a gas turbine power before it appears .
And with the full-size model of the Z-20 helicopter, boarded the new 052D batch and the flight deck of the 055 guided missile destroyer , used to test its aviation support facilities , and wait until the 075 type is unloaded... ...not to mention the real machine, at least the model is enough.
