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Galicia-class landing platform dock

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Galicia delivering humanitarian supplies to Iraq.
Class overview
BuildersNavantia
Operators Spanish Navy
Subclasses
Completed2
Active2
General characteristics
TypeLanding platform dock
Displacement13,815 tonnes full load
Length166.2 metres (545 ft)
Beam25 metres (82 ft)
Draft5.8 metres (19 ft)
Propulsion4 diesel Caterpillar 3612 (two in tandem per shaft) at 16.2 MW, 2 shafts
Speed
  • 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) maximum
  • 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) sustained
Range6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Endurance6 weeks
Boats & landing
craft carried
4 LCM-1E and two RHIB
Capacity600 fully equipped soldiers and 130 APCs or 33 MBTs
Complement185
Sensors and
processing systems
DA08 air / surface search IRSCAN SATCOM, Link 1, JMCIS
Armament
  • 4 Sippican Hycor SRBOC MK36 launchers
  • 1 AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
  • 1 Indra SLQ-380 Aldebarán jammer/interceptor
  • 2 × Oerlikon Contraves 20 mm cannons
Aircraft carried4 SH-3 Sea King or 6 NH-90 helicopters

The Galicia class is a class of two 13,900 t landing platform dock ships, belonging to the Spanish Navy. Built by Navantia in Ferrol, their mission is to carry out amphibious warfare by transporting the bulk of the Infantería de Marina.

These ships have both a large helicopter deck and a 885-square-metre (9,530 sq ft) well deck for large landing craft, as well as a 1,000-square-metre (11,000 sq ft) space for up to 33 main battle tanks.

Galicia was commissioned in 1998 and Castilla in 2000. Galicia and Castilla are based at the Rota naval base in Spain.

The class is the result of a joint project between Spain and the Netherlands for developing a common class of LPD that would fulfill the needs of both countries to replace older ships. This process produced the Enforcer design, which forms the basis of the Galicia-class as well as the similar Template:Sclass-.

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