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| Spanish F100; Base design for Australia's AWD |
After having passed successful tests of performance and acceptance in workshop (FAT), in the presence of the customer, the turbine factory has made available the Australian Adelaide ASC shipyard 2 gear reducers of the third vessel, thus completing the delivery on the agreed dates of the gearboxes of three destroyers (Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney) AWDthat ASC is manufacturing for the Australian Navy, and that started at the beginning of the year 2011 on the delivery of the first vessel AWD teams.
The gears that have been built and tested entirely in the turbine factory of Ferrol with design by Damen Schelde Gears, are identical to those manufactured for the Spanish frigate F105, and are part of the system of propulsion of the vessel type code with two shaft lines and whose main characteristics are 5,650 kW nominal power of the diesel engine and 17,500 kW gas turbine power.
The manufacture of gear reducers represents a major line of activity of the turbine factory that contributes to the provision of added value of vessels that Navantia designs and/or builds. In this regard and as a reference point out that in recent years have been supplied reducers like BAC Cantabria, the frigate F105 Christopher Columbus ships and ships of the program known as speed racer, Thunderbolt, lightning and Tornado BAM.
In addition mention that the participation of the turbine factory in the AWD program also includes the manufacture and supply of such ships rudders having been delivered, to date, the first ship teams and currently taking in building the corresponding ships 2 and 3 in accordance with the contractually agreed upon with the client planning.