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Taipei Times
Date: Mar 08, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
The navy has proposed building a helicopter carrier as part of its indigenous
Silhouettes of a helicopter carrier and other proposed warships are displayed yesterday at a naval indigenous shipbuilding exhibition on board the AOE 532 Panshi in Keelung Harbor. Photo: Lo Tien-pin, Taipei Times
shipbuilding program to boost the nation’s marine-patrol capabilities.
The navy plans to build a Landing Helicopter Dock capable of carrying six large helicopters and traveling at 30 knots (55kph).
The 22,000 tonne, 220m-long carrier would be fitted with an OTO Melara 76mm gun, an air defense missile system, an active electronically scanned array radar and advanced sonar system, the navy said.
The announcement of the proposal coincided with a naval indigenous shipbuilding exhibition that opens today on the AOE 532 Panshi, a combat-support ship that docked in Keelung Harbor yesterday.
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