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Fincantieri Starts Working on Italian Navy Future Landing Helicopter Dock LHD.
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Our video coverage on Fincantieri's LHD during Euronaval 2016
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Vessel’s characteristics: LHD - Landing Helicopter Dock
The unit will be approx. 200 meters long with a maximum speed of 25 knots. It will be equipped with a combined diesel and gas turbine plant (CODOG) and will be able to accommodate on board over 1,000 people, of whom more than 700 military or civilian transported people. The LHD's main mission is the transport of people, vehicles and loads of different kinds and in their transfer on land in port areas through on board systems and in not equipped areas with various kinds of vessels (such as the small LCM landing craft units with a load capacity up to 60 tons, four of which can be admitted, launched, and recovered through a flooded basin, located on the stern of the vessel). The LHD’s military profile use provides transport and landing, in equipped and non-equipped areas, of troupes, military vehicles, logistic equipment, using the provided features and means of transfer. |
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 The steel cuting ceremony. Image: Fincantieri |
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The civil profile use provides:
• healthcare and hospital support • transfer and landing of people and wheeled or crawled means of transport in equipped and non-equipped areas • supply of drinking water to land through onboard desalination plants or storages • supply of electricity to land with 2000 kw of power and its distribution through containerized conversion and distribution units • possibility of accommodating specialized staff on board or hosting up to 700 civilian personnel, plus the same number in containerized residential units • rescue operations base through helicopters and boar staffing vessels Equipped with wide embarkment areas of about 4500mq within dock-garage and hangar-garage and a continuous open deck, able to receive wheeled vehicles of various kinds, containers and helicopters, the unit can perform several military and civil missions. The different areas of cargo securing are accessible through stern and side ramps, and cargo handling will be managed by internal ramps and elevators. On board there will be a fully equipped hospital, complete with operating rooms, radiology and analysis rooms, a dentist’s office, and a hospital rooms capable of hosting 28 seriously injured patients (further admissions are possible through duly equipped container modules). |
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 LHD scale model unveiled by Fincantieri during Euronaval 2016 |
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