Type 067 utility landing craft
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Type 067 landing craft utility (Yunnan class) |
Builders: | Wuhu Shipyard Wuhu, Anhui |
Operators: | |
Preceded by: | Type 067 (Yunnan class) |
Built: | N/A |
In commission: | 1964 |
Completed: | 130 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Yunnan class |
Type: | Landing Craft Utility |
Displacement: | (full load) 128tons |
Length: | 28.6m |
Beam: | 5.4m |
Draft: | 1.4m |
Installed power: | 600 hp with 2 shafts |
Propulsion: | Two diesels |
Speed: | 12 knots |
Range: | 500nm |
Capacity: | 1 tank, or 2 light vehicles, or 46t cargo |
Crew: | 10 |
Sensors and processing systems: | 1 Japanese Fuji navigational radar |
Armament: | 2 Type 61 dual-25mm AAA guns and two dual-14.5mm antiaircraft machine guns |
The Type 067 landing craft, utility (NATO codename: Yunnan class), also known as Yunnan class, entered the People's Liberation Army Navy service from 1968–1972. This class is the enlarged version of Yuch'in class landing craft mechanized,[1] developed into a landing craft tank (LCT) capable of carrying either a medium tank, or two armored fighting vehicles, or a company of infantry.[2] Some Type 067 have been converted to buoy tender/cable layers, designated as Type 911, which includes two sub types, Type 911I and Type 911II, one for buoy tender, the other for cable layer.[3]
Armament
The ships of this class are fitted with three Type 61 dual-25mm antiaircraft artillery guns. Some units are also fitted with Type 81H 122mm multiple rocket launchers.
Specifications
- Displacement: 135 t
- Length: 28.6 m
- Beam: 5.4 m
- Draft: 1.5 m
- Speed: 12 kt max
- Range: 500 nm @ 10 kt
- Propulsion: 2 diesel engines @ 600 hp with 2 shafts
- Complement: 12
- Armament: Two Type 61 dual-25mm antiaircraft artillery guns or two 14.5 mm heavy machine guns (II x 1)
- Lift capacity: 46 t
- Radar: 1 Japanese Fuji navigational radar