China Equipping Amphibious Assault Ship With UCAS Launch System

Type 075

An aerial view of Type 075, CNS Hainan.

Credit: People’s Liberation Army
China’s new Type 076 amphibious assault ship will be equipped with an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), newly revealed imagery suggests. Type 076 is the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) newest and largest landing helicopter dock (LHD) to date. Construction began in late 2023 in...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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