Royal Australian Navy's NUSHIP Adelaide LHD embarks for sea trials
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Royal
Australian Navy's NUSHIP Adelaide LHD embarks for sea trials
NUSHIP
Adelaide, one of two Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ships being built
for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), left BAE Systems Williamstown on
17 June to begin sea trials, the company announced yesterday, June 23,
2015. After some initial trials in Port Phillip Bay, NUSHIP Adelaide
will spend ten days on the water travelling to Sydney.
The current testing
precedes a second period of sea trials in August, ahead of delivery
to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) later this year. The sea trials
are conducted under a number of scenarios; some require the ship in
certain conditions and/or water depths while others require the ship’s
systems in specific configurations.
In Sydney, NUSHIP
Adelaide will be dry docked so her hull and flight deck can be cleaned
and painted.
She will then
set sail and undertake more sea trials on the return voyage to Williamstown,
arriving in mid-July. The August sea trials will focus on communication
and combat systems.
BAE Systems Director
of Maritime, Bill Saltzer said: “We will undertake approximately
240 hours of testing over 20 days to ensure all systems perform to
their capability. Some of the trials will run concurrently and cover
everything from basic systems operations such as alarms, to the ship’s
manoeuvrability while at sea. We are on track to deliver NUSHIP Adelaide
at the end of September this year. The ship is even more ready than
HMAS Canberra was for her first sea trials, reinforcing that we have
implemented lessons learned from the first of class and we have continued
to improve our productivity.”
The LHDs are the
largest warships ever to be built for the RAN. As the prime contractor,
BAE Systems has worked closely with the Defence Materiel Organisation
to deliver the project with subcontractors Navantia, which constructed
the hulls in Spain, SAAB and L3 which supplied the combat and communications
systems respectively.
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