As the French Mistral evolved UDC Surf and Avalanche

Опубликовано: 05 Февраль 2025
на канале: Army. Weapons. Art of War. Art of War.

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Amphibious assault ship (English Amphibious assault ship.) - Sub-class amphibious assault ship that combines most of the features needed for amphibious assault.

Modern UDC differ greatly in their capabilities from the first amphibious assault ships, created in the US in the 60s of the last century. They are also seen as expeditionary groups controls the forces and means or ship connections, as a consequence, often have higher-scale features. Moreover, in times of peace these units are used as training, in connection with which they are equipped with educational facilities for receiving students. To participate in humanitarian actions or sanitary evacuation is deemed necessary to have on board the hospital, as well as opportunities for the rapid increase in hospital capacity. ship design also involves the use of small minesweepers, combat boats and so on. for deployment in remote waters. Finally, the recent trend in some countries is the desire to give amphibious transport ship capacity of the courts complex supply ship groups in the open sea, which brings the multi-purpose nature of such units to the limit.

It is this versatility and pronounced due primarily to the interest of the Russian Navy, for which the actual landing potential UDC is of secondary importance. Given the weakness of the military infrastructure, such as the Far East, UDC, combining in one bottle floating barracks, headquarters, hospital, aircraft carrier and amphibious ship, will be indispensable mobile units of the military infrastructure in remote and underdeveloped areas. Moreover, command and staff potential of modern UDC will allow the Russian Navy to conduct network-centric combat operations, which are characterized by a completely new quality of information support and naval forces. One of the main end-goals of the current military reform is just the mental, structural and military-technical restructuring - the orientation of the concept of "deep strike", inherited since the Second World War, to the modern paradigm of the network-centric actions spent by NATO countries, primarily the US, during the recent armed conflict in Yugoslavia and Iraq.

It will also increase the possibility of interspecies interaction navy and air force and ground forces. Finally, the UDC are ideal vehicles for such important functions as the flag demonstration, projection of power and participation in COUNTER operations. Currently, these tasks assigned to the heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great", which was originally designed in fact to deal with the US aircraft carriers, then large anti-submarine ships, the purpose of which is clear even from their very names. Meanwhile, the use of UDC allows to perform all these tasks efficiently. Actually, we call them the amphibious assault ship only because of the traditional use of the term in the Russian ship classification. In fact, in the French Navy ships data classified as "command-and-forwarding" and the Spanish Navy - as "ships of the strategic projection of power." In any case it is clear that the modern balanced Navy, the construction of which requires several decades, can not do without the UDC, whatever they are called.