Philippine Navy new 124-meter Landing Platform Dock

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The future 124-meter Landing Platform Dock for the Philippine Navy is based on an improved Tarlac-class (above) design.
Class overview
Nameunnamed class
Builders PT PAL Indonesia
OperatorsFlag of the Philippine Navy.svg  Philippine Navy
Preceded by Tarlac-class landing platform dock
Cost PH₱2.78 billion (~US$50.5M) per ship [1]
Built2023-2025
In commission2026-2027 (expected)
Planned2
Building2
General characteristics
Type Landing Platform Dock
Displacement7,200 tons
Length124 m (406 ft 10 in)
Beam21.8 m (71 ft 6 in)
Draft6.7 m (22 ft 0 in)
Installed power4 × diesel generators
Propulsion
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) @ 85% MCR
Range9,360  nmi (17,330 km; 10,770 mi) @ 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) cruising speed
Endurance30 days (crew), 15 days (full)
Boats & landing
craft carried
  • 2 × LCU or LCM at floodable well decks
  • 2 × RHIB or LCVP at boat davits
  • Capacity to carry 2 x Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) Mk. 3 interdiction boats [2]
Capacity500 troops plus associated vehicles and equipment
Complement121 crew (including air crew)
Sensors and
processing systems
  • X-band & S-band navigational radars
  • Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) camera
  • Combat management system (planned)
  • Surface search radar (planned)
  • Air search radar (planned)
  • Electro-Optical Fire Control System (planned)
  • Hull-mounted sonar (planned)
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • Electronic Warfare Suite (planned)
  • 4 × six-tube Terma C-Guard mortar-type decoy launchers (planned)
Armament
Aircraft carried2 x 10-ton naval helicopter
Aviation facilities
  • Hangar for one medium (10-ton) helicopter
  • Flight deck for two medium (10-ton) helicopters

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]

Contents

The ship class has yet to be named. The steel cutting ceremony of the first ship was conducted on 10 August 2023. [3]

Development

Concept Design

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]

Armaments

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.

Flight support

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.

Construction

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. [8] It is expected that the ship would be completed by 2024, and delivered to the Philippine Navy by 2025.

Ships of class

Ship nameHull numberLaid downLaunchedCommissionedServiceStatus
TBCTBC22 January 2024 [9] [10] Sealift Amphibious ForceUnder construction
TBCTBCSealift Amphibious ForceUnder construction

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