In the past few days, the Navy has released the official promotional video of the Guangxi ship. In it, the Guangxi ship is equipped with a Z-20 helicopter and the same-class ship Hainan ship are in the same frame, which attracted Brother Hu's attention. The Guangxi ship and the Hainan ship are both 075 types. Amphibious assault ship , currently China has built a total of three ships, of which Hainan (31) and Guangxi (32) have been officially announced to be in service. The third ship (33) is said to be called Anhui ship. Foreign media said that this ship will be Join the Navy this year.
075 amphibious assault ship is a large-scale main ship specially developed for the People's Liberation Army's possible island warfare and landing warfare in the future. Compared with the 071 dock landing ship , the 075 system has a larger carrying capacity and stronger capabilities. Moreover, its armament capabilities have reached a higher level. It can carry various types of helicopters to fight against enemy surface ships, ground troops and submarines. It can also carry landing crafts for landing operations, and can also be used as a flagship in the fleet.
From the official promotional video, we can see many interesting things. From the video, we can see that although the Guangxi ship has only been in service for a few days, various trainings are being conducted in an orderly manner, including helicopter takeoff and landing operations, Damage control simulated accident handling, shipboard weapon firing, deployment of air-cushion landing craft and 05 amphibious combat vehicles have also been prepared. At the same time, the Guangxi ship also conducted a joint training mission of releasing air-cushion landing craft. It can be seen that the naval officers and soldiers are very serious about training, which also shows that the Navy has an urgent need for the Guangxi amphibious assault ship to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
Moreover, in the official promotional video, you can also see the footage of the Guangxi and the Hainan sailing in the same frame. This is the first time that the two giant ships with a total displacement of 80,000 tons are moving side by side on the sea. It looks like It is very shocking. It can be said to be the navy of a great power in the true sense. However, the Guangxi ship serves in the Eastern Theater Navy, not in the Northern Theater Navy or the Southern Theater Navy. As for the Hainan ship, it serves in the Southern Theater Navy. In fact, this is very reasonable. If the Guangxi ship is not included in the Eastern Theater Command Navy, it would be really unreasonable, because now the three theater navies, that is, the Eastern Theater Navy does not have its own aircraft carrier . Of course, this is the overall navy. After all, the Eastern Theater Command is mainly responsible for the frontline operations against Taiwan. Although the aircraft carrier is not needed, the amphibious assault ship is necessary. It fits the needs of the Eastern Theater Navy. Now the Guangxi amphibious assault ship is also the flagship of the Eastern Theater Navy.
Brother Hu believes that it may be because the Eastern Theater Navy is sorting out a new home for the Guangxi ship. After all, this 40,000-ton giant is received by the Eastern Theater Navy for the first time. Therefore, the Guangxi and Hainan ships are in the same frame. It is probably because the Guangxi The ship is training at a naval port in the southern theater. This move facilitates coordinated training with the Nanhai Ship. The Hainan Ship can dispatch experienced crew members to assist the Guangxi Ship in quickly forming combat effectiveness. Moreover, the naval ports in the southern theater have better maintenance conditions. After all, they have been deployed before Before the Hainan ship was put into service, correction work was carried out on the port. After the repairs of the new home in the eastern theater are completed, the Guangxi ship can move in at any time.
What is even more eye-catching in the official promotional video is the Z-20 helicopter parked on the deck of the Guangxi ship in the picture. However, if you enlarge the picture and look closely, you can see that the details of this Z-20 are too rough. At first glance, it is a full-size model. However, the Navy did this intentionally, and it was just laying a little easter egg. In fact, the Z-20 helicopter will be on board the Type 075 amphibious assault ship very soon, because the Navy's Z-20 helicopter has already officially boarded the Type 055 amphibious assault ship. The official also announced the official entry of the Z-20 naval version. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the Z-20 helicopters are put on board the Type 075 amphibious assault ship.
Z-20 can be said to be the most important equipment of the 075 amphibious assault ship. After all, this 10-ton general-purpose helicopter has more complete performance than Z-9 and Z-8, and it also undertakes many tasks, such as ground attack missions, anti-submarine tasks, patrol tasks, transportation tasks, search and rescue tasks, etc.Brother Hu believes that the rumored Ka-52 helicopters exported to China and installed on the 075 amphibious assault ship have not been confirmed and cannot be confirmed. Therefore, in the future, only Z-20 helicopters will be responsible for attack missions, Marine Corps The Zhi-20F of the Air Assault Battalion is equipped with two pylons for carrying 8 AKD-10 anti-tank missiles or other weapons, and is fully capable of beachhead operations. Therefore, with the subsequent arrival of the Z-20 series helicopters on board, the 075 ship-based helicopter team can be completely completed, thus forming a complete combat capability.
