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Type 271 Landing Craft, Mechanized [LCM]

CountryChina
Equipment parametersmechanized landing craft
Variant 271II 271III
Design Start 19661985
Construction time December 1972March 1987
Launch time September 1975
Service time November 30, 1975December 1989
Status in servicein service
Manufacturing plant Changsha ShipyardChangsha Shipyard
Length 54.0m 58.4 meters
beam 9.2m 10. 4 meters
draft 1.7m 2.28 meters
no-load displacement 400 tons
Normal displacement 507 tons 613.7 tons
full load displacement 634 tons
carrying capacity 100 tons 150 tons
overload 150 tons
shipping capacity
  • 3 59-type medium tanks or
  • 8 Type 85-cannons, or
  • 7 Jiexing 5-ton trucks, or
  • 300 fully armed soldiers
    		•
  • Type 62 light tanks (7 units); or
  • Type 63 amphibious tanks (6 units)
  • 59-type medium tank platoon (3 vehicles) +
    an infantry reinforcement platoon (70 people); or
    • propulsion
  • two 6300ZC diesel engines,
  • 2x600 horsepower
    		•
  • two MAN8120/27 diesel engines,
  • 2X600 horsepower speed section
    • maximum speed 13 knots
    anti-wind level 8
    endurance 1000 nautical miles / 10 knots1000 nautical miles
    self-sustaining 20 days 15 days
    Self-defense weapons
  • 69-style sea 14.5 mm double-barrel machine gun
  • 61-type 25 mm double-barreled artillery
  • 14.5 mm double-barreled high-altitude machine guns
  • installation position is the same as that of the four-seat gun on the Model 079
    • Crew 36 crew members25




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