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| A newly built Landing Craft being lowered into the water |
Navantia San Fernando-Puerto Real has refloated on April 27, 2015, at 12 am, the twelfth and final landing craft LLC has built 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, which was signed in December 2011, envisaged the construction Navantia whole of the twelve units, representing 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 ships similar to the "Juan Carlos I", also built by Navantia. It is anticipated that delivery of the final four boats occur in the summer of 2015.
All boats are being delivered to the customer, meeting the requirements of quality, manufacturing budget in hours and improved three months on the contractual delivery period.
The move, which took place at the premises of San Fernando, has involved the launching of the boat with the help of a frame; before the transfer has been made of it by a self-propelled platform from the workshop where it was built to the dock area where there have been several pre-launching checks.
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| Landing Craft delivered earlier to Royal Australian Navy |
The main characteristics of the boat are:
- Length overall: 23.30 m.
- Molded breadth: 6.40 m.
- Strut construction: 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 under different conditions: transport a tank Abrams, various combinations of Army vehicles, a rifle company or a truck with 20-foot container.
Australia is a strategic country for Navantia, as to the amount of naval ongoing programs. Has a subsidiary in the country, shows the commitment to it. Recently it signed several contracts to adapt Navantia ships the requirements of the Australian Navy, which positions it as safe and solid choice.
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