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- Title
LHDs A GAME-CHANGING CAPABILITY.
- Authors
YEO, MIKE
- Abstract
The article shows the improvement with the sealift capability of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) with the arrival of the HMAS Canberra and HMAS Adelaide Landing Helicopter Docks (LHD) to keep with its international peacekeeping obligations. It discusses the geopolitical reasons for the acquisition of the LHDs and offers update on the plan of RAN to form an Australian Defense Force (ADF) Amphibious Ready Group for amphibious assault deployment. It describes the primary watercraft for the LHDs.
- Subjects
HELICOPTER landing; MILITARY sealift; AUSTRALIA. Royal Australian Navy; DEFENSE industries; AMPHIBIOUS assault ships; EQUIPMENT &; supplies
- Publication
Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 3, p20
- ISSN
1446-6880
- Publication type
Article