First, we have a really nice detailed diagram of 998. It looks like the well deck can only hold one LCAC, but it will also hold a couple of high speed patrol boat. I presume that these will all be used against the pirates. It also looks like the hangar is large enough to hold 4 Z-8s (assuming they do 2 side by side on top of 2 front and back). The Z-8s accompanying 998 were specially fitted with gun pods to assist in attacking pirates.

Here are some photos of the LCAC from the same magazine. Looks like the one traveling to Aden will be 3320. There is also a nice photo of LCAC going at high speed.



A picture of the well deck with patrol boat.

Finally, more pictures of 998 going on this mission.



Anyway, good to see we are finally getting more details on this ship.
2 comments:
hmmm, the diagram doesn't look right to me, the lcac inside seems far too big.
even more so if one uses the z-8 helo on the deck for reference, or the flooding door on the rear section to determin the length/width ratio of the lcac.
but of course i could be wrong...
looking at videos of simulations, they could fit 2 to 4 LCAC in there, but LCAC looks just huge in this diagram
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