Navantia Launches Ninth Fast-Landing Craft for Australia

Navantia has launched the ninth LLC fast-landing craft for the Royal Australian Navy. Part of a 12-vessel fleet, the design of these ships is based on the fast-landing crafts built also by Navantia for the Spanish Navy between 2006 and 2008.

The contract for the construction of the fleet was signed in September 2011 and the works have been executed in the Bay of Cádiz.

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.

All the ships are scheduled to be delivered by mid-2015.

The main characteristics of the ships are:

• Length: 23.30m
• Flotation length: 21.27m
• Width: 6.40m
• Depth: 2.80m
• Propulsion: two 809kW diesel engines, two water jet propellers
• Speed: more than 20k
• Autonomy: 190 miles at full load
• Loading capacity flexibility: Abrams vehicle, several Army vehicles, fusiliers’ company or 20ft container truck

Australia is a strategic country for Navantia and has opened a subsidiary, Navantia Australia, in order to cooperate with the Australian Government in future options for its Navy.

For more information, please contact Navantia.