Pakistan Navy and Amphibious transport dock ships

[nomi007]

Every modern navy have Amphibious transport dock ships

have we any plan for such type of ships in near future

 

[Koovie]

Every modern navy have Amphibious transport dock ships

have we any plan for such type of ships in near future

Any navy which has these kinds of vessels belongs to a nation which has blue water ambitions or/and many islands to protect... both things do not apply to Pakistan.

 

[Manindra]

Any navy which has these kinds of vessels belongs to a nation which has blue water ambitions or/and many islands to protect... both things do not apply to Pakistan.

100% agree with you & one more application for this vessels are in natural disaster but Pakistan does not have large coastline neither island.

 

[Manindra]

Doble Post

 

[Gentelman]

actually we are happy with C-130s & Hovercrafts………

 

[Umair Nawaz]

we should develop blue water capabilities.

 

[RAMPAGE]

we should develop blue water capabilities.

what's that ?

 

[acetophenol]

what's that ?

capability to operate independently for a long time away from your nations maritime boundary. That automatically translates into a large navy with aircraft carriers,replenishment vessels,destroyers,frigates,mid air refuellers,awacs,medium and light choppers,subs etc.

 

[RAMPAGE]

capability to operate independently for a long time away from your nations maritime boundary. That automatically translates into a large navy with aircraft carriers,replenishment vessels,destroyers,frigates,mid air refuellers,awacs,medium and light choppers,subs etc.

o bhai i know what is but it's not a capability its a status ! for example us navy is a blue water navy because it operates in international waters !

 

[acetophenol]

o bhai i know what is but it's not a capability its a status ! for example us navy is a blue water navy because it operates in international waters !

you need blue water capabilities to get blue water navy status.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

what's that ?

amphibious,nuclear subs, carrier based battle group services.

 

[SirHatesALot]

Pakistan should buy more frigates and submarines instead of going for amphibious ships.

 

[T90TankGuy]

With a small coast line that Pakistan has , there is no need for getting any sort of amphibous vessels. plus the budget of Pakistan navy does not allow for it .

 

[Mugwop]

Amphibious ships won't be much useful to us.
I agree with BLACKGOLD said.

 

[janon]

Every modern navy have Amphibious transport dock ships

have we any plan for such type of ships in near future

Would be very unwise, for a navy that does not even have a destroyer. PN simply cannot dedicate enough firepower to support large amphibious ops far from home. Neither air power, nor ship based. Who will give air cover to the amphibious transpot ships?

Without credible aircover or sufficient firepower to accompany them, they would be sitting (ok, moving) ducks for the enemy. The expensive ship and hundreds of marines would meet a watery grave before setting sight on enemy shores.

Even the IN, which is five times bigger than PN, has only modest amphibious capabilities. At present, they are training to defend India's numerous, strategically vital island chains. It will be a few years before IN has the capability to land a brigade on enemy shores. But they are working on developing that capability, at the new (very large) amphibious training facility in the new joint command at Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Hypothetically though, if the PN has the ability to land amphibious forces in India, it would be a big headache for India, because we cannot then afford to leave the huge southern landmass so sparsely defended. We would not be able to concentrate all our forces in north and central India, if there was a possibility of an amphibious invasion landing at Cochin or Mumbai or Chennai. Happily though, that possibility does not even exist in the hypothetical realm. No country bar the USA can accomplish such a feat.