PLAN(People’s Liberation Army Navy)Type 22 “Houbei”Fast Attack Craft (FAC)

Last Updated 31 July 2011

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VADM Cebrowski’s Street Fighter concept is alive and well….in China.

 

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Yesterday’s PLAN Type 22 FAC Conceptual CONOPS

The PLAN’s “Street Fighter” CONOPS*

* The “Street Fighter” was a naval strategy and CONOPs first seriously considered by the USN in 2001. This OSD supported concept proponed the use of numerous small, inexpensive, and networked missile firing ships instead of a few much larger and more expensive combatants. The Street Fighter concept evolved to the development of the larger Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) primarily because the ability to “self deploy” was critical to the USN’s overarching “Forward Deployed” strategy.