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Cost: $2.2 billion
Built: 2002-2010
Planned: 6
Completed: 6
Cancelled: 0
Retired: 0
Lost: 0
Type: Amphibious Assault Carrier
Displacement: 40,100 tons
Length: 252 m
Beam: 35 m (waterline); 42 m (overall)
Draught: 7.25 m
Propulsion: 2x General Electric LM2500+ Gas Turbine Engine, 4x MTU-741 Diesel-Electric Engines in CODAG arrangement, 2x Hi-Preformance Azipod
Power Output: 74,000 shaft horsepower (55.1 MW)
Speed: 25+ knots
Range: 8,000 nm @ 16 knots
Complement: 90 officer, 710 enlisted (Ships Company) + 400 officers/enlisted (Airwing)
Troops Carried: 2,000 Royal Marines (2,400 surge capacity)
Sensors & Processing Systems:
- Radar 2060 3D Air Search Radar
- Radar 2061 Scout LPI Surface Search & Navigation Radar
- Radar 2062 Missile Fire Control Radar
- Sagem Vigy 20 Electro-Optical Director
- TACCOM
- MEK.378 Electronic Warfare Suite
- AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
- AN/SLQ-25 Nixie
- MK-36 SBROC
- 1x M/1976 76MM/62" Dual Purpose Cannon (A pos.)
- MK.41 VLS Missile Battery
- 4x 8-cell modules amidships (32 cells -- 32x Wyvern AAW Missile)
- MK.48 VLS Missile Battery
- 2x 8-cell modules amidships starboard (16 cells -- 32x RIM-162 ESSM AAW Missile)
- 4x M/2002 35mm Combined Gun & Missile Close-In Weapons System (44x RIM-116C RAM Point Defence Missile)
- 4x M/1928 Browning 12.7x99MM Heavy Machine Gun
Aircraft Carried: 8x F-81B Savage fighters, 8x AH-55 Alligator gunships, 12x CH-53K Super Stallion II transport helicopters
Watercraft Carried: 2x LCAC, 3x LCU, 6x CB-90, 4x Sjøbjørn 25
Naming Convention: October Alliance Member States
Ships in Class:
- HMS Layarteb (L.127)
- HMS Hawdawg (L.128)
- HMS Hirgizstan (L.129)
- HMS Eidsvoll (L.130)
- HMS Tordenskjold (L.131)