China conducts full-scale island assault exercise with massive amphibious vessels
Special to WorldTribune.com
For the first time, all of the PLA Navy’s three gigantic Type 071 AmphibiousTransport Dock vessels were deployed last week in a large naval exercise in the tense South China Sea, simulating in full an island-taking assault.
Chinese Type 071 Amphibious Transport Dock ship.
Also participating in the drill were PLAN’s destroyers, frigates,military helicopters and possibly submarines.
The Yuzhao-class Type 071 amphibious transport dock ships are the PLAN’s largest vessels, except for its lone aircraft carrier, the Liaoning.
With 20,000-ton displacement, each measures 689 feet long and 92 feet wide.
It can carry 15-20 amphibious assault vehicles and 500-800 troops, an idealvessel for island taking operations.
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