Royal Australian Navy AU

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Richmond Class Mine Countermeasure Vessels

The Richmond Class Mine Countermeasure Ships are to be built in France by Kership Lorient at Lanester. They are based on the City Class Mine Countermeasures Ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Belgian Navy. These vessels will be fitted with a range of unmanned systems including unmanned surface, aerial and underwater vehicles alongside towed sonars and mine identification and neutralization ROVs.

Displacement: 2,800 tonnes (full load)
Length: 93 metres
Beam: 17 metres
Draught: 4.0 metres
Speed: 15.3 knots
Compliment: 33

CODAD Propulsion:
2 x MTU16V 4000 Diesel Engines (8,200hp each)
2 x Faveau Controllable Pitch Propellers
2 x Hi-Sea Marine Bow Thrusters
1 x Hi-Sea Marine Stern Thruster

Weapons:
1 x Rheinmetall 12.5mm Naval Gun System
2 x M2HB 0.50 Calibre Guns

Radars:
Raymarine Pathfinder 24 Surface Search Radar
Raymarine Magnum 12 Navigation Radar

Underwater Equipment:
Celudex Marine Rv200 Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV)
Celudex Marine Ax400 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
Boccaro LH9 Side Scanning Tower Sonar Pod
OZZ-5 Mince Countermeasure Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)






All vessels in the class will be based at HMAS Waterhen, New South Wales and will form the 16th Mine Countermeasure Squadron.

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Updated 21/03/2024

[Ro-Po Max]

Oh my Absolutely stunning

[eswube]

Excellent drawings. As always.

[odysseus1980]

https://navyrecognition.com/index.php/n ... ogram.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-clas ... res_vessel

Richmod Class looks based on this. Very good work as always.

[Eeo]

https://navyrecognition.com/index.php/n ... ogram.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-clas ... res_vessel

Richmod Class looks based on this. Very good work as always.

As he literarily said in the second sentence of the Richmond class post.....

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Yarra Class Minehunters

The Yarra Class Minehunters are used to find, classify and destroy moored and bottom mines from vital Australian waterways. The class was wholly designed and built by Thales Australia at Carrington (Newcastle), New South Wales. Out of the 5 vessels built, 2 have been placed in reserve pending disposal and the remaining 3 are currently in active service. They are due to be replaced by the Richmond Class MCMs by 2028.

Displacement: 732 tonnes (full load)
Length: 58 metres
Beam: 9.9 metres
Draught: 3.2 metres
Speed/Range: 14 knots (1,600nm @ 10 knots)
Compliment: 40

Diesel Propulsion:
1 x Fincantieri GMT BL230-BN Diesel Motor (1,985bhp)
2 x AWADI Controllable Pitch Propellers
1 x AWADI Bow Thruster
2 x AWADI Stern Thrusters

Radars:
Raymarine Pathfinder 24 Surface Search Radar
Raymarine Magnum12 Navigation Radar

Underwater Equipment and Sonar:
GEC-Marconi Type 2093M Variable Depth Minehunting Sonar
OZZ-5 MCM UUV





The 3 vessels of this class form part of the 16th Nine Countermeasures Squadron and are homeported at HMAS Waterhen, New South Wales.

[Ro-Po Max]

I totaly inspir!!

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Manning Class Combat Diving Team Launch

The Manning Class Combat Diving Team Launches are designed to operate as specialist vessels, they each carry equipment such as a mini recompression chamber, RHIB, dive platform and hauling winch. They are primarily used by the Australian Combat Diver Teams (AUSCDT) for mine clearance, demolitions, neutralising explosives, search/salvage operations and ships underwater maintenance. Although they are not commissioned vessels, they do fly the Australian White Ensign (AWE) and use the prefix ADV (Australian Defence Vessel) instead of HMAS (His Majesties Australian Ship).

They are also deployable in overseas theatres when embarked on HMAS Gallipoli.

Length: 28 metres
Beam: 6.0 metres
Draught: 2.6 metres
Speed/Range: 35 knots (300nm)
Compliment: 21

Diesel Propulsion:
2 x Caterpillar C14 ACERT Diesel Engines (532kW each)
2 x HamiltonJet HT50 Waterjets

Radar:
Simrad HALO-3 Pulse Compression Radar



CDV01 ADV Joshua Manning is operated by AUSCDT1 from HMAS Penguin, New South Wales.
CDV02 ADV William Fitzgerald is operated by AUSCDT4 from HMAS Stirling, Western Australia.

[reytuerto]

Nice drawing! Very detailed for a boat of that size. Well done (I think that in your case is Bravo Zulu )! And is amazing for the size of the real boat a descompression chamber! May I ask why the pair of boats (which seems very capable, at least to me) are not comissioned in the Australian Navy? Thanks in advance for your answer and cheers.