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Naval support & landing craftIn service
Landing Craft Utility
Type 271 landing craft is a landing Craft Utility. It was built by Qingdao Shipyard. Reported operators include People's Liberation Army Navy.
ChinaType 271 landing craft
Office Of Naval Intelligence · Public domain · Resized · Public domain · Source ↗ · ModifiedQingdao Shipyard
Converted to Type 271II
Type 271I landing craft utility
People's Liberation Army Navy
LCU 1600 series
Type 271II
Yupen class
Landing Craft Utility
Machine guns
400t normal, 500t max
54m
9.2m
1.7m
two 6300ZC diesel @ 600 hp each
13 kn
1000 nmi @ 10 kn
20 days
100 t normal, 150 max
300 fully armed troops
36
Type 271 ( Yupen -class) Landing Ship Medium 100+ China Later variants are bigger.
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 54 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 54 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 54 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 54 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 54 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
Type 271 landing craft equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
ChinaLower-bound count for Type 271 ( Yupen -class). Service scope: People's Liberation Army Ground Force; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 100+. Origin: China. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2024), not the article revision. 2024 cited source edition. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.