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SRI LANKA NAVY (SRI LANKA)

AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS

A530 air-cushion landing craft (1998)

Names

A530

Builders

Vosper-Thornycroft, Portchester, UK: A530

Commissioned

1998: A530

Losses

none

Transfers

None

Discarding

in service (2019): A530

 

Displacement standard, t

18

Displacement full, t

28

Length, m

18.9 pp 20.6 oa

Breadth, m

8.80

Draught, m

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No of shafts

2 air propellers

Machinery

2 Deutz diesels

Power, h. p.

1050

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 600(30)

Armament

1 x 1 - 12.7/79

Electronic equipment

Furuno radar
Military load

10 t cargo or 77 passengers

Complement 10

Project history: Vosper-Thornycroft M10 type. GRP hull, superstructure is strengthened by kevlar.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

A530 2006

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