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Naval Industry News - Turkey, Spain |
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selects Navantia's Juan Carlos LHD design as winner of its LPD tender |
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Turkey's
Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) just announced via press
release that it selected Sedef shipyard as winner of its LPD tender
and that final contract negotiations with this shipyard can now begin.
Sedef shipyard in Turkey offers a design based on Juan Carlos LHD under
the collaboration with Spain's Navantia. |
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Spanish Navy Juan Carlos LHD designed and built by Navantia
Picture: Spanish Navy
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Landing
Platform Dock Project
According to SSM, the Landing Platform Dock Project (LPD)’s
main purpose is the acqusition of one Landing Platform Dock in order
to meet the operational requirements of Turkish Naval Forces. The
scope of the procurement is for:
- 1 LPD and
- Four Landing Craft Mechanics (LCM)
- Twenty seven Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV),
- Two Landing Craft Personnel Vehicles (LCVP),
- One Commander Boat
- One RHIB (Rubber Hull Inflated Boat) will be acquired
One of the requirement was for a Privately Owned Turkish Shipyard
to be main contractor, also responsible for design, construction,
integration and tests and final performance.
The other proposals which were rejected were:
RMK Marine Shipyard offering its own indigenous design and Desan shipyard
offering a design based on South Korea's Dokdo class. At the early
stage of the tender a Chinese company submitted its design proposal
but then backed away.
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Juan Carlos LHD can carry and deploy 4 LCMs thanks to its well
deck
Picture: Spanish Navy
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Juan Carlos class LHD
The multi-purpose Strategic Projection Ship "Juan Carlos
I" is the largest naval unit ever built in Spain. Her NATO denomination
is LHD (Landing Helicopter Dock). In June 2007, Australia
announced it would purchase and build two ships of the same design to
become the Canberra-class landing helicopter docks.
The ship has been designed for 4 mission profiles:
- Amphibious ship transporting a Marine Corps Force for landings and
land support operations.
- Force projection ship transporting Army forces to any theatre of operations.
- Aircraft-carrier
- Non-combatant operations: humanitarian aid, evacuation from crisis
zones and hospital-ship in catastrophe areas.
The crew consists of 261 people: 30 officers, 49 NCOs, 59 leading seamen
and 123 ratings.
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