FuturePAF
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Does it seem likely China would built an approximately 50,000 ton dedicated UAV carrier (no well deck for amphibious operations) with two at least catapults and two elevators for fixed wing UAV ops?
Chinese LHD / LAH Carriers - Type 075 & 076 and the future
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yusheng
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Maybe its object-oriented design or arrangement, depending on the task it ( on one mission) will carry out. space must be saved for UAV or amphibious tank.
one catapult indicates its internal arrange.
different from the manned-plane, UAV can stay in air much longer, and sometims can be disposable or turned out to be a missile.
there are lots of possibilities to test and verify for the ship and for you and me.
one catapult indicates its internal arrange.
different from the manned-plane, UAV can stay in air much longer, and sometims can be disposable or turned out to be a missile.
there are lots of possibilities to test and verify for the ship and for you and me.
sutton9999
Registered Member
My take
total width = 45m
central landing stripe 25m
10m vertical parking on both sides
main stack of UAVs is likely to be a multirole under development by Chengdu.
Other UAV includes carrier version of GJ-11, Wing loong 3 & 10.
Wet dock will carry USV and UUV.
total width = 45m
central landing stripe 25m
10m vertical parking on both sides
main stack of UAVs is likely to be a multirole under development by Chengdu.
Other UAV includes carrier version of GJ-11, Wing loong 3 & 10.
Wet dock will carry USV and UUV.
Michael
VIP Member
The concept of a UAV carrier doesn't require too much of the ship itself, and any current LAH/AC can easily be changed into a UAV carrier.
I think it has two core issues:
1. Tactical upgrade. Currently UAVs have entered the military on a large scale. But the tactics about the application of UAV in naval warfare is still being explored, and it needs some time to form a complete tactical idea.
2, UAV systemization. China and the United States are still relatively chaotic military UAV, a variety of UAV are from different manufacturers or different design and production system. Both countries lack a family design of UAV products. This is very important to the UAV carrier, it is related to the UAV carrier maintenance system construction.
At present, all countries' armies are still dominated by the idea of “a large number of manned equipment + a small number of unmanned equipment”, and are still exploring UAV carriers. Anything is possible. But we need time!
Michael
VIP Member
This is a message from a civilian system, perhaps it might give you some information.
“Zhuhai Cloud”. The world's first intelligent unmanned system mother ship. It is a research vessel with the functions of remote control and autonomous navigation in open waters. It mainly provides services for carrying out marine scientific research, expanding marine science and contributing to the development of the marine economy.
Length: 88.5 meters
Width: 14 meters
Displacement: 2000 tons
Speed: 13 knots, max 18 knots
It carries dozens of (air/sea/submarine) unmanned systems equipment. It can be deployed in batch in the target sea area and carry out task-oriented adaptive networking to realize three-dimensional dynamic observation of specific targets. It is connected to the “Intelligent and Agile Ocean Stereo Observation System (ISOOS)” of the Southern Ocean Laboratory. It was officially delivered on January 12, 2023 and put into service.
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FuturePAF
THINK TANK: CONSULTANT
So something more modest. The Turks plan to build a larger drone carrier, with their LHD. I’m not sure what strategy they intend to employ with it.
Michael
VIP Member
Oh.
That's not a moderate strategy. In fact, it's a very realist strategy.
What does an intelligent unmanned naval warfare system of the future really look like? All advanced countries are exploring. Massive investment all at once is not a good idea. All single unmanned weapons (air/land/sea/submarine) are available to everyone, but so far none of them have formed a complete system, much less a systematic combat idea.
“Zhuhai Cloud” is a research vessel, but it has an all-around unmanned intelligent exploration system. It uses multi-equipment (air/sea/diving) to explore the target area in an all-round cooperative way, which is completely consistent with the army's three-dimensional attack idea. Its command and control system is of great research value for military unmanned equipment cooperative command system.
You can imagine what would be the scene if all its scientific exploration tools were replaced with weapons, these unmanned devices were directly upgraded to military grade, and the number of all unmanned devices was increased.
The conversion of these systems into military systems would be very fast after they are matured for use in the scientific research field. At the same time, they themselves have a very high civilian scientific research value.
As for Turkey's drone carrier, well, you said it was a plan. Let's continue to wait and see.
Neocloud
Registered Member
I thought they originally intended to deploy the F-35B with it, it was only turned into a drone carrier after the F-35 deal got cancelled?
FuturePAF
THINK TANK: CONSULTANT
For now, yes. It might deploy the Kizilema UCAV as the closest to a fighter/bomber from its decks.
