Navantia Delivers The Second Group of Four LCM-1E Landing Crafts to Royal Australian Navy

: Posted On Friday, 06 February 2015 14:53

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Navantia Delivers The Second Group of Four LCM-1E Landing Crafts to Royal Australian Navy

The second group of four LLC (LHD Landing Crafts) for the Royal Australian Navy has arrived Sydney on 5th. February. The landing crafts departed from Navantia Bay of Cádiz last 27th. December and have arrived to the HMAS Waterhen base, where will be commissioned to DMO (Defence Materiel Organization).

LCM-1E landing crafts
(picture: Navantia)

Navantia delivered the first four units in May 2014. These landing crafts and the last four units, to be delivered in mid 2015, will operate with the ALHD ‘Canberra’ and the ALHD ‘Adelaide’.

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.

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.

Navantia delivers to Australia the second group of four LCM-1E for the ALHD “Canberra”
(picture: Navantia)

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.