Dokdo-class amphibious LHD
The Dokdo-class amphibious assault ship is a class of Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) amphibious assault ships operated by the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). Designed by Hanjin Heavy Industries, the requirements for the amphibious landing ships were to enhance South Korea's current amphibious operation capability, both in terms of assault and military operations other than war (MOOTW) type operations.
The ROK Navy required a versatile landing ship with amphibious capabilities in its program to build a blue-water navy. In the end, Hanjin's Dokdo design was chosen for this need. LSF-II 631-also built by Hanjin- was chosen as the LCAC to operate from the ship.
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Type:
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Landing Platform Helicopter
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Displacement:
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14,300 tons (empty) / 18,800 tons (full)
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Length:
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199 m (653 ft)
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Beam:
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31 m (102 ft)
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Draught:
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7 m (23 ft)
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Propulsion:
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4 SEMT Pielstick 16 PC2.5 STC marine Diesel engine
24 MW (32,000 shp) |
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Speed:
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23 knots (43 km/h) maximum
18 knots (33 km/h) cruising |
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Boats & landing
craft carried: |
2 LCAC (LSF-II)
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Capacity:
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Up to 200 vehicles (Including Tanks)
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Troops:
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720 marines
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Crew:
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330
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Sensors and
processing systems: |
SMART-L air search radar / ELM-2248 (MF-STAR) multifunction surveillance radar, MW08 surface search radar / LIG Nex1 SPS-550K, AN/SPS-95K navigation radar, TACAN, VAMPIR-MB optronic sight
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Electronic warfare
& decoys: |
ESM/ECM:SLQ-200(v)5K SONATA, Chaff launcher
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Armament:
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2 × Goalkeeper CIWS
1 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile |
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Aircraft carried:
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Up to 15 helicopters (Can support VTOL jets)
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Aviation facilities:
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Flight deck with 5 landing spots and hangar
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This vessel cost in 2005 was only $296 million USD, so if we add inflation which would make it around $463 million USD 2019 and then convert to NZD which $612 million but now we have to add inflation for 2025 which the hard part to calculate... But it would be around $755 million. A similar calulations from the ROKS Marado's the sister ship of Dokdo comes to a similar costing. (Remember this is just an estimate as predicting future inflations is very difficult). However I believe that this would be in the budget of "more than 1 Billion NZD."
The draught of 7m does put me off a little, (Canterbury at 5.4m) but still within the usable range in the islands for HADR (Considering HMNZS Aotearoa draught is 8.5m)
