Chinese Navy's Massive Hovercraft - Type 728 Zubr class

[@criticizingcriticizer]

first! You are one of the most underrated Chinese Navy commentators on KZbin! I'm glad you are gaining more subscribers throughout the year though. Keep up the great work!

[@thisguy7175]

How many Chinese Navy commentators on YT are there…?

[@katong1953]

Eurasia Naval Insight is the best channel on the PLAN.

[@nuckingfuts9515]

Amazing AI technology indeed. 😀

[@gelinrefira]

I always like the Zubr class both the Russian and Chinese version. It's big, it's bold and air cushion hovercraft are just so rare.

[@grokranfan8578]

They look big from the outside but living on them can easily compared with living on a submarine.

[@amunra5330]

Looks awesome

[@leecheong4986]

Hi, check it out. Reported in Chinese and HK media, PLAN is building 019, 020, 021 aircraft carrier simultaneously. 019 being another one non nuclear powered similar to 018, Fujian. 020 and 021 are nuclear powered. All have started work.

[@hansudowolfrahm4856]

Sauce pls, I speak Chinese so it'll be fine

[@robert506007]

Well by all accounts even in the West the Shipyard Space is there. So no reason, unless shirt of teething troubles with the propulsion, why they shouldn't beable too.

[@xsu-is7vq]

Highly unlikely. If PLAN is confident enough about nuclear propulsion to start construction of two such vessels simultaneously, then they would not be wasting resources on a separate conventionally powered vessel. But it would be highly highly unusual for PLAN to build three ships of a very new designs as a first batch, not to mention such a complex and expensive ship. The simpler 075 and 076 weren’t built in such manner. So it’s much more likely that there are three ships in their production pipeline, as in sub components are been produced, but they won’t all be in the shipyard assembly stages at the same time.

[@amunra5330]

You need to cite your source. I highly doubt the China will build a Nuclear carrier without testing out the technology on the Fujian.

[@johnsmith1953x]

@@xsu-is7vq PLAN is has been able to build nuclear ships since their nuclear subs in the 1970s.

[@robertwren8878]

We used to travel on hovercraft bigger than this they carried cars and vans and about two hundred people from the uk to france and back which i had the pleasure of riding twice and they can handle really rough seas like the English channel!

[@xuepingsong5329]

Wow. How long ago was that? Still operating?

[@basargaloran7998]

Zubr is bigger.

[@gelinrefira]

ohhh this is gonna be gooood

[@西园寺世界-w5w]

in 4:37 The character on logo means"Reunify Motherland" so i can't imagine other Zubr usage scenario🤔

[@catrojana3694]

❤ good catch. Those wordings were small, though.

[@erdiakarsu4945]

That is the hovercraft from red alert 2. Wow.

[@Strategy_Analysis]

Greece wanted to sell its 4 Zubrs to China, but U.S. pressure on Greece stopped the sale.

[@erdiakarsu4945]

Haha then they legalized gay marriages. How shaming.

[@ryangonzales7716]

@@erdiakarsu4945 well ancient Greeks are gay though so I'm not surprised at all lmao

[@cashcash5995]

Nice dictatorship and fake democracy .

[@_Wai_Wai_]

Greetings. This thing looks really cool

[@deathdrone6988]

They could be used for a landing on Kinmen island so that other assets more suited to the open seas can be used for the actual invasion.

[@Strategy_Analysis]

It is not accurate to say that these are not deployed opposite Taiwan.

[@mystictraveler8642]

It's a beauty.

[@Ronolein]

Ich habe eine Landungsübung dieser Fahrzeuge 1980 in meinem Armeedienst life erleben dürfen. Das war wirklcih beeindruckend. Diese Fahrzeuge können auch mehrere Kilometer in das Landesinnere vorstoßen wenn keine Hindernisse an der Küste vorhanden sind.

[@wchengvision]

Didn't you see the combination use of semi-submersible transport ships + Type 728 or Type 726 ?

[@GGLEDOU]

Hovercraft can be more efficient and cost-energy saving with magnetic profiled blades (no more motors and fuels, but more space for vehicles and soldiers).

[@znrctrnn]

How will those fan blades take a few fpv bombs?

[@honfmeilingfleet957]

this could be good Ship for Modern Warships

[@ShazyJeo]

I want to know how many Tanks, armored vehicles hovercraft can carry at single time ?

[@toastdc2109]

5:20

[@danielfencheno7989]

Are you sure that the sea conditions in South China sea is calmer and better than the taiwan strait? Please clarify, thank you.

[@AbHarians]

Sea condition in taiwan strait are absolutely calmer than south china sea.

[@sirkeg1]

What use - case is there for it in South Sea fleet? Given the distances, it doesn't seem useful for spratly and paracels. Tonkin Gulf maybe?

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

only for taiwan most likely.

[@kowkunt8710]

A real heavy weight transport.

[@rags417]

"The Zubr is good at crossing small bodies of water like rivers and lakes. And the Taiwan Straits..."

[@paulcoverdale8312]

So this is where

[@HappyPandaBear73]

Fascinating!👍🙏🙂🐲🐉

[@WildBillCox13]

Disclaimer: not an expert. With that said . . . I am a child of the generation during which hovercraft were envisioned as the future for all travel and transportation. The reality which followed was a science fiction writer's reason to drink. Hovercraft are incredibly expensive to operate and maintain. They gulp down oil like (your euphemism here) and are only useful in fairly stable seas. A cross between the aviation and marine design paradigms, hovercraft are not sturdy enough for general at sea utility. In one way they are much like airships- they seem to be intuitively useful . . . until physics, meteorology, and costs of maintenance come into play. That's when you realize they're money pits so deep that their advertisement to enemy nations can be viewed as straight up misdirection. Really, if you build 'em, you better use them right away, or you'll run out of money keeping them up to spec over time. Plus the fuel needed to train crews and practice operations. WHich is why you see ships and planes everywhere, but hovercraft? Few and far between.

[@bestamerica]

' nah nah... ussr russia made the ZUBR hovercraft to give or sell to china navy use it... china did make or not make it hovercraft... Type 728 is China's designation for the Zubr-class assault hovercraft... Zubr (“Bison”) was originally developed by the Soviet Union in the 1980s... At 187 feet long and a maximum weight of 555 tons, it's the largest hovercraft in the world

[@raymondtay3532]

Well done China Super Technologies. 💪💪👏👏👍👍💯💯♥️♥️

[@45641560456405640563]

LOL, someone didn't pay attention.....

[@iscariot1572]

This is copy of soviet hovercraft just like most of the chinese equipment

[@ycplum7062]

I think you misread your script at the beginning (00:17). LOL Later you correctly said it can carry 500 men, not 50 as you said in the beginning.

[@linsenli2500]

Two different scenarios, the ship can carry tanks/armored vehicles plus 50 soldiers, or 500 infantry soldiers without any vehicles.

[@tigersilberhannes9153]

I am convinced that landing hovercrafts are just cool showpieces to get young men excited about the marines and join the force, they are not really usefull in operations now, are they.

[@zix_zix_zix]

Not really useful? I believe they are extremely useful..

[@不死原飴羽]

Depends on what doctrine, what kind of scenarios, just like amphibious plane. They re niche, but they have their purpose.

[@randomka-52alligatorthatis34]

Those Young men in the Marines will rather take these Landing Hovercrafts than Wooden Boats that their predecessor used lol.

[@GGLEDOU]

100% agree ! Nowdays, high speed military transport ships exist (see the U.S. warships). They're an alternative to the hovercraft which is very noisy and so detectable far away without radar.

[@premprempree-wq9kp]

ละเมิดลิขสิทธิ์?

[@pedrom.farfanvega]

China debe saber que ese tipo de nave se necesitan para el transporte marítimo (de pasajeros y mercancías), que naveguen de Chancay hacia el Sur o al Norte de Perú... recuerden solo falta 8 meses para la inauguración del mega Puerto de Chancay y se necesita hacer funcional este Puerto... recuerden existe alguna Potencia que espera que este Puerto no funcione.. 中國應該知道，從錢凱到秘魯南部或北部的海上運輸（乘客和貨物）需要這種類型的船舶......記住，距離大型錢凱港的落成只剩下8個月的時間了該端口需要發揮作用...記住，有一些權力希望該端口不起作用... China should know that this type of ship is needed for maritime transport (of passengers and goods), sailing from Chancay to the South or North of Peru... remember there are only 8 months left until the inauguration of the mega Port of Chancay and This Port needs to be made functional... remember, there is some Power that expects this Port not to work...

[@bobbylow175]

Imagine if you had tank style guns at the front to clear trees when it gets on land, it would be devastating.

[@gelinrefira]

That's a little overkill lol. A landing craft really shouldn't be craving out a beach head for its own landing.

[@MrPharu500]

It’s like their aircraft carriers, never having the guts to venture away from SC seas!

[@danthemansmail]

They look cool, like all hovercraft. But also like all other hovercraft, they are incredibly easy to disable, which is why the only thing the US uses them for is recruiting efforts.

[@southendsites]

Now obsolete because of sea drones...

[@blackfreud9048]

Oh, the ferry to Taiwan!

[@liuminggee5670]

why .i never heard indian use theird kickboxers challenge chinese kickboxers.

[@NikolaosKorelis]

Thos are sweet

[@heruwahyudi6060]

Slamat malam saudara jaga kesehatan keluarga dunia aman damai slamat malam 🌟❤🌟

[@中国-e8c]

НОАК 🇨🇳👍🇨🇳👍🇨🇳👍🇨🇳👍🇨🇳👍

[@khaledselim8130]

Ukraine

[@QuantumChrist]

US already had these for decades.

[@stephenhill8790]

Copies of the British Srn 🤣😂

[@diortioinocando8976]

hehehe

[@premprempree-wq9kp]

เมริกามีอะไรรูปแบบใหนมักจะมี2ชิ้ยงานเสมอมา

[@KC-nd7nt]

Moves slower . Larger rarget . Ummmm . Yeah . No worries

[@JOzzie-u8z]

Congratulations your 75 years behind England

[@accountantthe3394]

You wish lil bro 😂

[@kumaroadking1580]

Another stolen design

[@russelfang7434]

Calling an authorized production as a stolen design is a little bit too harsh.

[@Zeta-y3c]

Nobody is copying Tejas. LOL

[@xinyiquan666]

thats ur country, everything is stolen

[@xinyiquan666]

u talk about ur country, pocket picking everything

[@xinyiquan666]

ur own nation, pocket picking