Navantia San Fernando-Puerto Real has refloated, on November 24 at 12 am, the ninth in the series of 12 landing craft LLC is building for the Australian Navy. The design of these boats is based on those built by Navantia for the Spanish Navy and delivered between 2006 and 2008.
The contract, signed in December 2011, includes the complete construction in Navantia of the twelve units, assuming a workload for the Bay of Cadiz estimated at 350,000 hours.
The boats are designed to operate with the LHD "Canberra" and LHD "Adelaide" strategic projection ship similar to the "Juan Carlos I", also built by Navantia. It is expected that delivery of the last four boats occurs in the summer of 2015.
The move, which took place at the premises of San Fernando, involved the launching of the boat with the help of a portico; before the transfer was made thereof by a self-propelled platform from the shop where it was built up area of the basin where there have been several pre-launching checks.
The main characteristics of the boat are:
Total Length: 23,30 m.
LWL: 21.27 m.
Moulded breadth: 6,40 m.
Prop Height: 2.80 m.
Propulsion: two 809 kW diesel engines, driving two waterjet thrusters (waterjets) through gearboxes.
Speed in ballast condition: over 20 knots
Autonomy: 190 miles at full load.
Capacity: the boat supports different load conditions, ranging from transport capacity of a tank Abrams, various combinations of Army vehicles, a rifle company or a truck with 20 foot container.
All boats are being delivered to the customer, meeting the quality requirements, budget manufacturing hours and an improvement over the contractual delivery period.
Navantia Australia is a strategic country, as to the amount of current programs naval and Navantia option is presented as solid and safe. It has a subsidiary in the country, demonstrates our commitment to it.
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