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BAmphibious assault ships
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Spanish ship Juan Carlos Ilarger figure on 0 of 1
TCG Anadolularger figure on 1 of 1
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Length
Single source230.82 m (757 ft 3 in)[source]
Length
Single sourceConfiguration
| Specification | Spanish ship Juan Carlos I | TCG Anadolu |
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| Power | 2 × 11 MW POD , GE ITP LM2500 + Navantia MAN 16V32/40[source] | 5 × 8,000 kW (11,000 hp ) Navantia Man Diesel Generators 2 × 11 MW (15,000 hp) Siemens SiPOD 2 × 1,500 kW (2,000 hp) bow thrusters[source] |
| Name | Juan Carlos I[source] | Anadolu[source] |
| Namesake | King Juan Carlos I of Spain[source] | Anatolia[source] |
| Ordered | 5 September 2003[source] | 1 June 2015 |
232 m (761 ft 2 in)[source]
Ship's company: 261 Air wing: 172[source]
371 naval officers and seamen, 50 naval aviation personnel, 50 hospital personnel, 550-700 amphibious marines, others
Single source1223 (371 naval officers and seamen, 50 naval aviation personnel, 50 hospital personnel, 550-700 amphibious marines, others)[source]
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| Builder | Navantia[source] | Sedef Shipbuilding, Inc.[source] |
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| Cost | € 462 million[source] | Over $1 billion [1][source] |
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| Laid down | May 2005[source] | 7 February 2018[source] |
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| Launched | 22 September 2009[source] | 30 April 2019[source] |
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| Commissioned | 30 September 2010[source] | 10 April 2023[source] |
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| Home port | Naval Station Rota , Rota[source] | — |
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| Identification | Pennant number : L61[source] | Pennant number : L-400[source] |
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| Status | Active[source] | In active service[source] |
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| Class & type | Juan Carlos I class[source] | Anadolu class (modified Juan Carlos I -class ) drone carrier - amphibious assault ship[source] |
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| Boats & landing craft carried | Four LCM-1E[source] | 6 xType LCVP[source] |
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| Capacity | 913 soldiers + up to 46 Leopard 2E tanks[source] | 46 Altay tanks 77 light vehicles[source] |
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| Sensors & processing systems | LANZA-N air search, ARIES surface search, PAR aircraft landing EID ICCS integrated communications control system[source] | SMART-S Mk.2 S-band 3D radar , SPN-720 Naval Precision Approach Radar, GENESIS-ADVENT Combat Management System, IRST , IFF , TDL , VMF , SATCOM , LWR , DDS , Torpedo Defense System, Aselsan Piri-100 Infrared Search and Tracking System[source] |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | REGULUS and RIGEL[source] | — |
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| Armament | 4 × RWS Sentinel 2.0 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns 2 x BPDMS (FBNW) 1 x VLS (FBNW)[source] | 1 × RAM 2 × Phalanx CIWS 5 × 25 mm Aselsan SMASH 200/25 RCWS 4 × 12.7 mm Aselsan STAMP RCWS[source] |
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| Aircraft carried | AV-8B Harrier II , Chinook , Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk , NH90[source] | 30 helicopters 30 to 50 UCAVs[source] |
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| Notes | Aircraft composition: Pure combat: 25 AV-8B/F-35B + 6 flight deck parking spots Mix: 11 AV-8B + 12 NH90 + 6 flight deck parking spots Pure transport: 25 NH90 + 6 flight deck parking spots[source] | — |
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| Role | aircraft carrier - landing helicopter dock (LHD)[source]Exact source equipment subject, not its payload or a supported platform | — |
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| Depth | — | 27.5 m (90 ft 3 in)[source] |
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| Endurance | — | 50 days, 30 days without replenishment[source] |
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