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aircraft carrier - landing helicopter dock (LHD)
Spanish ship Juan Carlos I is documented in the equipment reference catalogue. It was built by Navantia.
Juan Carlos I
King Juan Carlos I of Spain
5 September 2003
Navantia
€ 462 million
May 2005
22 September 2009
30 September 2010
Naval Station Rota , Rota
Pennant number : L61
Active
Juan Carlos I class
26,000 tonnes
230.82 m (757 ft 3 in)
32 m (105 ft)
6.9 m (23 ft)
2 × 11 MW POD , GE ITP LM2500 + Navantia MAN 16V32/40
21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Four LCM-1E
913 soldiers + up to 46 Leopard 2E tanks
Ship's company: 261 Air wing: 172
LANZA-N air search, ARIES surface search, PAR aircraft landing EID ICCS integrated communications control system
REGULUS and RIGEL
4 × RWS Sentinel 2.0 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns 2 x BPDMS (FBNW) 1 x VLS (FBNW)
AV-8B Harrier II , Chinook , Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk , NH90
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
aircraft carrier - landing helicopter dock (LHD)
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Spanish ship Juan Carlos I equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Navy exact named equipment holdings: Juan Carlos I (capacity 18 hel or 10 AV-8B FGA ac; 4 LCM-1E; 42 APC; 46 MBT; 900 troops). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PRINCIPAL AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS / LHD. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Navy exact named Juan Carlos I (capacity 18 hel or 10 AV-8B FGA ac; 4 LCM-1E; 42 APC; 46 MBT; 900 troops) equipment holdings under PRINCIPAL AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS, LHD. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. This is the named service only, not a national or parent-force total, factory production, ordered future units or combat-readiness measure. Weapons per vessel, crews, payloads and capacity counts are excluded. Embarked aircraft, landing craft, APC, tanks and troops are capacities, not additional holdings counted here.
Reported count for Juan Carlos I. Service scope: Spanish Navy ships; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 1. Origin: unstated. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.