CSTC Showcases Thai Navy LPD Models at DSA 2014

14 April 2014

CSTC is showing at DSA its design proposal for the Royal Thai Navy future RFI for an LPD (photo : Navy Recognition)

CSTC Showcases the future Algerian Navy C28A Corvette and Thai Navy LPD models at DSA 2014

At DSA 2014, the 14th Defence Services Asia Exhibition and Conference currently held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), China Shipbuilding Trading Co., LTD. (CSTC) is showing its design proposal for the Royal Thai Navy future RFI for an LPD.

The LPD design (no project name was given to us) may accomodate 360 embarked troops in adition to its crew of 130 sailors (plus 15 for the aviation detachement). The LPD's endurance is in excess of 45 days.

Two S-70 type helicopters can fit in the hangar while the deck may accept one CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The CSTC representatives could not give us the overall length of this LPD project but gave us a displacement of 22,000 tons.

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