The PLAN's Amphibious Warship Inventory

[Armand2REP]

Life on the Type 071 LPD:

*wry smile* Why would Chinese warships bother a "Frenchman"? *Raised eyebrow* Anyway, most of the PLAN's TLS's are equiped with a well deck, and can thus launch amphibious tanks and landing craft far from shore, so the brown water assessment is iincorrect "frenchie"...

A troop carrying capacity of 700 marines is by no measure "not that many" troops... You could check if you dont believe me.

There are plenty of French bases within range of the 071. Anyway, the PLAN's LST endurance is too short for blue water operations.

All the crew activity room the troops have are in the storage bay. That is going to be filled up with landing equipment on a deployment and no room for troops and sailors to habitate. Cramming 700 soldiers on that ship is wall to wall people with such little crew space.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Any photos of landing crafts..