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Naval
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Navantia
Delivers First Four LCM-1E Landing Crafts to Royal Australian Navy |
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The first four fast landing crafts (LLC) for the Royal Australian Navy
departed on 8th. March on board a cargo from Navantia facilities in
Puerto Real. It is scheduled that the cargo arrives destination around
mid-April. |
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LCM-1E landing
crafts
(picture: Navantia)
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The rest eight units are being
built by Navantia in different steps of construction, and will be delivered
in groups of four during the next months.
The main characteristics of the ships are:
-- Length overall: 23.30 m.
-- Floatation length: 21.27 m.
-- Width: 6.40 m.
-- Depth: 2.80 m.
-- Propulsion: two 809 kW diesel engines, two waterjets propellers
-- Speed: more than 20 knots
-- Autonomy: 190 miles at full load
-- Loading capacity flexibility: Abrams vehicle, several Army vehicles,
fusiliers’ company or 20 feet container truck. |
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Navantia
San Fernando sends to Australia the 4 first units of LCM-1E for the
ALHD “Canberra”
(picture: Navantia)
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The contract
for the construction of the series of 12 LLC was signed in September
2011. The landing crafts are destined to operate with the ALHD “Canberra”
and ALHD “Adelaide”, strategic projection ships, similar
to LHD ”Juan Carlos I”, also built by Navantia in cooperation
with BAE Systems.
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