You do know when I mean IFF, I mean the civilian ship IFF via Allied Warship and most importantly Allied Warplane, I am not talking about how the civilian ship can IFF other, rather, how other ship and plane IFF that civilian ship.
How are you IFF a civilian ship when there are probably million of those.
I know how Semi-submersible work, but do you know how Amphibious Warfare works?
1.) You do not launch an Amphibious Assault with 3 LCAC (which you will get about 500 troops)
2.) You do not have the way to support these troop on shore and off shore using these ship.
Ship like USNS Montford, they are build for SUPPORTING the Amphibious Asssault, not launching an Amphibiious Assault. You quote the first part of that passage, but I wonder why you did not quote the whole thing? Which detail what ship like USNS Montford is for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Montford_Point_(T-ESD-1)
Just because it was used as a dock, does not mean they are to be used for an amphibious assault. These ship are used for supporting a Amphibious Assault, not directing an assault.
Didn't I have already said USNS ship are used for SUPPORTING ROLE, not an assaulting role for Amphibious Assault?
How are you going to have a ballast on a civilian ship? The cloest any civilian ship to the LST role is a car ferry, but they
CANNOT open their ballast mid way on their journey, or otherwise, what will ship do when they are filled with water? They SINK.
Let me educate you in this aspect. Case in point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise
MS Herald of Free Enterprise have a lower vehicle deck you can open to put cars in. The ship sank in 1984 because they have their ballast bow door open during the journey.
A ship near a coast (where Amphibious Operation ususally conduct from) would have low seabed, meaning, a ship will push the water into a narrower seaway and thus lower the waterline of a ship because the clearence of the ship and the seabed disminished.
Why a LHD or LHA have to have a well deck to carry out seaborne operation? THat's because a well deck can partially submerge below the waterline, and they can raise or lower the ship much like a spillway locks to adjust the waterline by trapping and releasing flood water.
Now, tell me, which civilian ship you have in China can do that? If not, then yes, of course you can launch your Zubr (which you have 4 at this moment by the way) but that ship will simply sink because the moment they open their bow door in the middle of an ocean, the water then starteed flooding in, they will sink to the bottom of the ocean.
more importantly, you do know to launch a LST from a mothership, YOU HAVE TO FLOOD YOUR SHIP DECK SO THEY CAN BE LAUNCHED AT WATERLINE, RIGHT?
You do know even Warship build for war may not be suitable to carry out amphibious assault. That is the reason why you need a special class of ship.
LOL. If only it's that easy for you to say "It's only ever need secure communication" Bullshit. Do you know what is the requirment of a ship in order to carry out amphibious operation?
A ship need to be nearing the coast, which mean the sealevel is low, a ship have to have low clearence to be closer to shore. Heavy Destroyer like AB Class is too big to have the clearence to simply support the onshore operation. You also need a well deck so you can open your bow door and launch your LCAC and it won't be sinking into the bottom of the ocean.
Of course you can use any ship to do a ad-hoc amphibious assault, if you don't want to use those ship again, because they will all be either sunk or beached if they are not properly equipped. And that is just the ship parts, not the equipped shore part.
Saying what you said, it indicate you have zero knowledge on how ampibious warfare works.