The PLAN LCAC Type 726 Yuyi Class

That's the thing, that order of Borei and the bulava project has ruined Russian navy. They basically spent all of their funding on there and they are still not fully operational. And that's their strategic fleet, not their regular fleet.

Russian shipbuilding industry can still build kilos, talwar and corvette on time as I said, but they struggle with everything else. So, they can still build the select hardware from cold war era that received export orders in 90s and 2000s, but they are going over budget and time with every other major project they have. When they were building 956EM, they had a fire on the ship. And as we can see with PLAN, 956EM are basically white elephants. They are having so much trouble with lada and project 22350, that they have to order additional kilos and talwars, because those are the only ships they can build on time right now.

tphuang said:

That's the thing, that order of Borei and the bulava project has ruined Russian navy. They basically spent all of their funding on there and they are still not fully operational. And that's their strategic fleet, not their regular fleet.

Russian shipbuilding industry can still build kilos, talwar and corvette on time as I said, but they struggle with everything else. So, they can still build the select hardware from cold war era that received export orders in 90s and 2000s, but they are going over budget and time with every other major project they have. When they were building 956EM, they had a fire on the ship. And as we can see with PLAN, 956EM are basically white elephants. They are having so much trouble with lada and project 22350, that they have to order additional kilos and talwars, because those are the only ships they can build on time right now.

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By what I've read thus far, the old Soviet big-ship building capability all concentrated at the Black Sea (Ukraine, that is), so with the breakup of USSR and economic turmoil in Ukraine, the ex-USSR Bloc capability to build stuff that's bigger than destroyer is essentially gone, right?

Whereas China is working its way up in this department, but still lack in-house compact engines, especially the turbine engine department, otherwise the 3230 could be even more capable...?

It talks about the new Type 726 class, spoken from the person that was made the captain of the boat.

It says that it launched on December of 2009 and left for Gulf of Aden in December 30th, 2010.

When Type 726 speeds from 998, it accelerates to 52 knots (I don't think this is the top speed, maybe the maximum cruise speed?)
It says that 80% of technology on this boat is new development, but it's very easy to use. It has much more capability than previous small hovercraft (Type 724).

It says the width of the Type 726 is only 1.8 m less than that of the width of the well deck.

第一次认识气垫艇是在成龙主演的电影《红番区》中。我被它海陆两栖、势不可当的镜头所折服。幸运的是，1999年我被调到一艘小型气垫艇上当艇员。出于对气垫艇的情有独钟，3年后，我如愿以偿地当上了艇长。2009年12月，中国海军第一艘新型气垫艇在万众瞩目中下水，我又被任命为国产首艘中型气垫艇艇长。
2010年6月30日，一个值得纪念的日子，我随第六批护航编队前往亚丁湾执行护航任务。
任务期间，我驾驶着气垫艇在商船集结海域进行巡逻，也在伴随护航背景下开展了警戒活动。每当气垫艇缓缓滑出“昆仑山”舰的坞舱，我驾驶的气垫艇就像一匹奔驰的野马，航速一会儿就飚升到52节，看着海面快速地向后漂移。真有一种“海阔凭鱼跃，天高任鸟飞”的感觉!
当完成任务归来，透过驾驶室的玻璃，看到母舰甲板上的战友们纷纷投来羡慕的眼光，自豪感油然而生。同时，国内商船也纷纷发来感谢信，称赞气垫艇巡航时威风凛凛，让他们备受鼓舞。
我驾驶的中型气垫艇80％的装备是新研制出来的，操作起来很方便。它的体型虽然没有国外“野牛”级气垫登陆艇大，有点像美国的LCAC气垫艇，但比起我以前驾驶的小型气垫艇，气派多了，功能也更先进。我们全艇成员思来想去，最终给它取了一个名字：海上野马。
为了驯服这匹“海上野马”，着实让我吃了不少苦头。气垫艇里面高温、高噪音，艇员们汗流浃背那是常事。在海上航行时上下颠簸。有时甚至有一种失重的感觉，时间长了一般人都会头晕、反胃。其实，最考验驾驶技术的关键一环是在进出母舰的时候，因为气垫艇的宽度比母舰艉大门的宽度只小1.8米，这意味着留给气垫艇左右空隙只有0.9米，同时还要把握好风浪对气垫艇的影响，如果对不准，或者没有控制好惯性，就会发生碰撞。因此，为确保每次进出坞舱的快捷与安全，我多次进行模拟训练，对每一个操纵环节熟记于心。实际训练时，我更是加倍珍惜机会，全神贯注地按照操纵要领一步步地进行。
如今，我的操纵技术娴熟多了，不像第一次进出母舰时那样提心吊胆了。我想，能够逐渐摸清这匹“海上野马”的脾气，并且完全驾驭它，圆满完成上级赋予的各项使命任务，这应该是我驾驶气垫艇参加护航任务最大的收获。
中国海军首次派遣“昆仑山”号两栖船坞登陆舰护航，并首次携带新型气垫艇执行巡逻任务。而我，正是其中驾驶气垫艇的一位士官艇长，我见证了气垫艇由小到大的历史，也见证了气垫艇巡航亚丁湾的历史。
为了这片海域的安宁，我留下了中国海军首艘中型气垫艇的美丽航迹。

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tphuang said:

It talks about the new Type 726 class, spoken from the person that was made the captain of the boat.

It says that it launched on December of 2009 and left for Gulf of Aden in December 30th, 2010.

When Type 726 speeds from 998, it accelerates to 52 knots (I don't think this is the top speed, maybe the maximum cruise speed?)
It says that 80% of technology on this boat is new development, but it's very easy to use. It has much more capability than previous small hovercraft (Type 724).

It says the width of the Type 726 is only 1.8 m less than that of the width of the well deck.

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The PLAN, with its Type 071 vessels (now for sure three of them and a fourth probably coming...my guess is that there will be more), is committed to its own LCAC. And from this description, it sounds like they are testing it out, that it is very capable...andmy guess is that they will build enough to outfit these vessels with them.

tphuang said:

It talks about the new Type 726 class, spoken from the person that was made the captain of the boat.

It says that it launched on December of 2009 and left for Gulf of Aden in December 30th, 2010.

When Type 726 speeds from 998, it accelerates to 52 knots (I don't think this is the top speed, maybe the maximum cruise speed?)
It says that 80% of technology on this boat is new development, but it's very easy to use. It has much more capability than previous small hovercraft (Type 724).

It says the width of the Type 726 is only 1.8 m less than that of the width of the well deck.

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It's more like 0.9m of clearance on each side whenever the 3230 LCAC enter or exit the 071 LPD, don't know what'd it be in the case of USN? Still, that's pretty tight. Also, the writer said it is very hot and noisy at the cockpit, given the type of powerplant the LCAC uses guess that can't be helped.

Any news about the china´s "zubr" aquisition program ? ever since that acident in ukraine, did this program continued or china just lost interest in it ?? (after this things must be expensive to maintain)

i think China has pretty much become self sufficient in the naval programme, they probably even suprised themselves in some aspects, as late as 5 years they were still importing alot from Russia but the last few years has really proved that China has now the capability to produce what it likes when it likes, for example in the Type 054A programme China had probably planned only 12 x Type 054A judging by the products and kits they bought for them, they are

14 x AK-176M 76mm Naval Gun between 2008-2011 (for 12 Type 054A and 2 Type 071)
48 x MR-90/Front Dome fire control Radar between 2008-2011 again for 12 Type 054A
16 x Fregat/Top Plate Air search radar between 2008-2011
12 x Mineral/Band Stand Surface search radar between 2008-2011

they also got 90 x AK-630 30mm Naval gun for 2 x Type 054 and Fast attack crafts Type -022

all of the weapons were all used after the 12th Type 054A or around that numbers, we know more than 12 have been built which means the rest is made inside China by domestic suppliers

if PLAN has a requirment they can now get what they need without any trouble of buying from outside countrys, having the ability to produce weapons inside China has many benifits, im sure China has made its own engine for Type 056 Corvette also, the days of importing weapons on a large scale are over in my opinion

kroko said:

Any news about the china´s "zubr" aquisition program ? ever since that acident in ukraine, did this program continued or china just lost interest in it ?? (after this things must be expensive to maintain)

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China Is Receiving This Bull!

THis thing came too late and is an white elephant.