Italian aircraft carrier Trieste
Italian aircraft carrier Trieste
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Italy | |
Name: | Trieste |
Namesake: | Trieste, a city and seaport in northeastern Italy |
Awarded: | 3 July 2015 |
Builder: | Fincantieri, Castellammare di Stabia, Napoli, Italy |
Cost: | € 1.1 billion [1][2] |
Laid down: | 20 February 2018[3] |
Launched: | 25 May 2019[4] |
Sponsored by: | Laura Mattarella |
Commissioned: | June 2022 (expected) |
Status: | Under construction |
Notes: | Hull number 6260 [5] - L9890 [6] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Trieste |
Type: | Landing Helicopter Dock [7] |
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Beam: | 36 m (118 ft 1 in) |
Depth: | 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in) |
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Range: | 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) to 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Endurance: | 30 days |
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Aircraft carried: | usually 12 × AgustaWestland AW101 or combination with SH90A, AgustaWestland AW129D and F-35B; |
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The ship will be equipped with heavy and medium helicopters (EH101 and NH90 respectively) and Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II aircraft.[15] It will have a floatable dock below the hangar level able to accommodate amphibious landing vessels such as LCM (new Cantieri Navali Vittoria LCM23 type), LCAC, and newer L-CAT (Landing Catamaran) vessels. It also can carry Ariete MBT, B1 Centauro tank destroyers, and 300 soldiers. Its base will be in Taranto.[16][17]
The unit is being built at Fincantieri’s Castellamare di Stabia facility near Naples. The first cut was 12 January 2017 and completed construction of the hull on 25 May 2019,[10] while the official delivery to the Italian Navy will be around the first half of 2022.[16] It is the largest Italian military ship built after the Second World War.[18]
History | |
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Italy | |
Name: | Trieste |
Namesake: | Trieste, a city and seaport in northeastern Italy |
Awarded: | 3 July 2015 |
Builder: | Fincantieri, Castellammare di Stabia, Napoli, Italy |
Cost: | € 1.1 billion [1][2] |
Laid down: | 20 February 2018[3] |
Launched: | 25 May 2019[4] |
Sponsored by: | Laura Mattarella |
Commissioned: | June 2022 (expected) |
Status: | Under construction |
Notes: | Hull number 6260 [5] - L9890 [6] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Trieste |
Type: | Landing Helicopter Dock [7] |
Displacement: | |
Length: | |
Beam: | 36 m (118 ft 1 in) |
Depth: | 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion: |
|
Speed: |
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Range: | 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) to 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Endurance: | 30 days |
Complement: |
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Sensors and processing systems: |
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Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | usually 12 × AgustaWestland AW101 or combination with SH90A, AgustaWestland AW129D and F-35B; |
Notes: |
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See also
Italian Navy Aviation
FREMM
PPA, Pattugliatori Polivalenti d'Altura