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Why don't we invite Chinese
? It will ease the tension and change all calculations.
These are not main surface components...its uses to carry troops.
The
Type 071 class can carry up to a battalion of marine infantry, roughly 400 to 800 troops, and has two vehicle decks capable of storing up to 18 armored vehicles. The dock ships can get troops and vehicles to shore by helicopter and landing craft. They have a flight deck capable of simultaneously operating two
Z-8 troop-carrying helicopters, and can store another four in a large hangar.
The ships also have a very large well deck-think of it as a hangar for landing craft that can be flooded with seawater-that can store and launch amphibious vehicles, rigid hulled inflatable boats and four
transport hovercraft similar to the American LCAC.
The ships each have limited self-defense protection in the form of a single 76-millimeter gun and four 30-millimeter close-in weapon systems. As defenses go, that's not much, and the Type 071s will rely on other ships in a naval battlegroup to defend them.
