The future 124-meter Landing Platform Dock for the Philippine Navy is based on an improved Tarlac-class (above) design. | |
Class overview | |
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Name | unnamed class |
Builders | PT PAL Indonesia |
Operators | Philippine Navy |
Preceded by | Tarlac-class landing platform dock |
Cost | PH₱2.78 billion (~US$50.5M) per ship [1] |
Built | 2023-2025 |
In commission | 2026-2027 (expected) |
Planned | 2 |
Building | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Landing Platform Dock |
Displacement | 7,200 tons |
Length | 124 m (406 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 21.8 m (71 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 6.7 m (22 ft 0 in) |
Installed power | 4 × diesel generators |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) @ 85% MCR |
Range | 9,360 nmi (17,330 km; 10,770 mi) @ 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) cruising speed |
Endurance | 30 days (crew), 15 days (full) |
Boats & landing craft carried | |
Capacity | 500 troops plus associated vehicles and equipment |
Complement | 121 crew (including air crew) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 2 x 10-ton naval helicopter |
Aviation facilities |
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The Philippine Navy's new 124-meter Landing Platform Dock is a class of two ships being constructed by PT PAL Indonesia for the navy's Landing Dock Acquisition Project. The class is an improvement on the previously commissioned Tarlac-class which was also constructed by PT PAL. The ships are being acquired as part of Horizon 2 of the Revised AFP Modernization Program, which was set to cover the period of 2018 to 2022. [1]
The ship class has yet to be named. The steel cutting ceremony of the first ship was conducted on 10 August 2023. [3]
The Philippine Navy included plans to procure 2 new landing platform docks as part of its Horizon 2 modernization phase, with the proposal with a budget of PHP5.56 billion among those approved in-principle by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in June 2018. [1] [4] This would allow the Philippine Navy to increase its sealift and amphibious assault capabilities to reach its planned overall capability. [5]
The Philippines' Department of National Defense (DND) signed a contract with Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL Indonesia on 24 June 2022, [6] with the shipbuilder delivering a variant of their improved 123-meter Strategic Sealift Vessel / Tarlac-class design. [1] [7] [5]
According to the technical specifications released as part of the project's tender documents, the ship will have improvements over the current Tarlac-class landing platform docks, despite both classes originating from a similar base design. [5] The improvements were formulated based on the Philippine Navy's experience in operating the Tarlac-class, and knowing its strengths and shortcomings. [5]
The Philippine Navy released information to tenderers that the ships are to be built with allowance for a 76-millimeter (3.0 in) Oto Melara 76mm Super Rapid main gun, two 30mm Aselsan SMASH secondary guns, either the Rheinmetall Oerlikon Millennium Gun or the Aselsan GOKDENIZ gun-based close-in weapon systems, and 8 manually-operated 12.7mm heavy machine guns. [1]
PT PAL confirmed in released proposals that their submitted landing docks design allows for a 76-millimeter (3.0 in) (3 in) main gun on the foredeck, two stern-facing 30 mm (1.2 in) secondary guns will also be fitted, one each on the port and starboard sides. [1] The weapons systems are supposed to be installed separately by the Philippine Navy after delivery.
Originally, the ships were designed to accommodate two medium-sized (10-ton) helicopters on the flight deck, and one similar-sized helicopter on the hangar, with the specifications emphasizing the US-made Sikorsky Black Hawk and Italian-made AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter as basis. But changes in the Philippine Navy's requirement later on changed the design to have a hangar for one medium (10-ton) helicopter and a flight deck for two medium (10-ton) helicopters.
On 20 July 2024, defense contractor EID, a subsidiary of Cohort plc, announced that it secured a contract with PT PAL to supply its Integrated Communications Control System (ICCS) for integration into the landing platform docks under construction for the Philippine Navy. [8] [9]
The first landing platform dock has officially started its construction on 10 August 2023 where a first steel cutting ceremony was held in PT PAL's facility in Surabaya, Indonesia [3] while the second landing platform dock has officially started its construction on 22 January 2024. [10] It is expected that the ship would be completed by 2024, and delivered to the Philippine Navy by 2025.
Ship name | Hull number | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Service | Status |
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TBC | TBC | 22 January 2024 [11] [12] | Sealift Amphibious Force | Under construction | ||
TBC | TBC | 29 May 2024 [13] | Sealift Amphibious Force | Under construction | ||
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