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CGI of Damen's Multi-Purpose ship designed for the Portuguese Navy. One of the main design philosophies appears to be USV/UUV operations. NRP D. João II, also known as the Multifunctional Naval Platform, will be a multipurpose ship for the Portuguese Navy, capable of carrying out surveillance operations, oceanographic research, environmental and meteorological monitoring, as well as emergency evacuation missions. Designed to sail with 48 crew members, the ship has a displacement of 6,900 tons, a total length of 107.6 m and accommodation for a battalion of soldiers when necessary. A platform roughly the size of the Bayraktar LSTs. Multi-purpose ships with a stern dock and helicopter deck, similar to a landing platform dock ship, have become increasingly important in world navies, and this has begun to include this innovation in parallel with the development of unmanned maritime.

Although the Turkish Navy has adapted by converting the navantia Athlas platform with a displacement of 28 thousand tons and a huge hangar area, as a country that is particularly looking to play a leading role in the development of unmanned marine vehicles, can these capabilities be prioritized in the design of smaller combat support, auxilarry, logistics and amphibious element ships in future?
 

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It could be, and by all means we should have been the country that came up with this, with tens of shipyards and design bureaus we have.
 

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It could be, and by all means we should have been the country that came up with this, with tens of shipyards and design bureaus we have.
We have came up with the bigger ones of such a platform, and since it didn't attract many people, it didn't progress further and projected to today.

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We once had a design called LCT-H that could have been converted to a Multi purpose platform if needed. (found at: Here @Alterund
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In my opinion it is about the marketing power and the "image" you set up by funding people to advertise your product. Damen's ship will be advertised as first of a kind but also note it is quite close to what China has built merely for test&research purposes.
 
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We once had a design called LCT-H that could have been converted to a Multi purpose platform if needed. (found at: Here @Alterund
I really love this approach. If it is possible to design it with a displacement of 7-8 thousand tons, I wish that the planning for LST 3 and 4 continue on this platform.

As a dock ship, it also has the ability to beach. On the starboard side of the ship there is a crane mechanism big enough to lower the landing boat that I'm just guessing,up to LCM-8. So it has the best of both worlds in the LST class. There is enough hangar area for 2 navalized helicopters. There is a flat deck area with at least 3 helicopter spots. There's an aft pool for at least 1 LCAC. With this well deck, flight deck and cranes, hangar areas, can have any type of UUV/USV we can think of, as well as almost any rotary wing UAV and maybe even some catapult assisted propeller UAVs can be deploy and operable. It can also have a very serious firepower with its 76mm main gun and optionally 2 CIWS, 8 cell VLS. This ship can be a very strategic asset that will serve in many different configurations in a wide range of areas from carrier task groups, to amphibious operations, disaster relief to ocean going aid campaigns, from oceanography to mine sweeping.
 

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CGI of Damen's Multi-Purpose ship designed for the Portuguese Navy. One of the main design philosophies appears to be USV/UUV operations. NRP D. João II, also known as the Multifunctional Naval Platform, will be a multipurpose ship for the Portuguese Navy, capable of carrying out surveillance operations, oceanographic research, environmental and meteorological monitoring, as well as emergency evacuation missions. Designed to sail with 48 crew members, the ship has a displacement of 6,900 tons, a total length of 107.6 m and accommodation for a battalion of soldiers when necessary. A platform roughly the size of the Bayraktar LSTs. Multi-purpose ships with a stern dock and helicopter deck, similar to a landing platform dock ship, have become increasingly important in world navies, and this has begun to include this innovation in parallel with the development of unmanned maritime.

Although the Turkish Navy has adapted by converting the navantia Athlas platform with a displacement of 28 thousand tons and a huge hangar area, as a country that is particularly looking to play a leading role in the development of unmanned marine vehicles, can these capabilities be prioritized in the design of smaller combat support, auxilarry, logistics and amphibious element ships in future?
looks like drone mothership
 

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I don't think our navy will give up beaching capacity under any circumstances on ships that will also serve as additional tank landing craft. So my ideas are shaped according to this assumption.

The most important factor for me is the addition of a helicopter hangar to the heavy tank landing vessels. In other words, if these LHDish solutions are reaching unnecessarily high costs, I am in favor of completely redesigning the superstructure of the Bayraktar class, for example. Maybe if the upper deck vehicle parking area can be sacrificed and the superstructure of the ship can be shifted 20-25 meters to the bow of the ship, both the helicopter deck can be made suitable for heavier helicopters and hangar maintenance space for 2 helicopter can be gained. Landing capacity can be reduce but In this type of superstructure layout, even a fixed guided MLRS launcher can be placed on the upper deck. Of course, this is a very hypothetical idea that would require a complete change in the ship's dynamic calculations. So I am in favor of a new class for LST 3 and 4 in any case. :)

To imagine the total power: If add a combat support ship and some escort combatant to the filotilla of 2 Bayraktar class and two LPDish LSTs, then here is a task group that can land at any point in all near seas, carrying a mechanized/tank brigade with at least 4 attack helicopters and very powerful fire support capabilities. Of course, in addition to supporting the amphibious force, these two ships will also be able to effectively respond to different needs as we talked above, especially as platforms that are more integrated with unmanned systems. Amphibious landing ships with helicopter hangars can also become very valuable platforms in disaster relief operations due to their capacity to establish an air bridge, the field hospital they can contain, and the fact that they do not need a pier to board ashore. Not only disaster relief to friendly countries, God forbid, but when the Marmara earthquake happens, such platforms can play a very critical role.
 
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As far as I can see it, if we are able to achieve to land and take off kızıl elma from Anadolu, we must then convert Anadolu lhd to a drone carrier. With the help of adding an elevator to main tank deck to locate here more UCAVs and double the ship’s capacity. And also carry marlin sida in it’s tank deck. And last one; we can add a small second runway to anadolu.

And also we can build small cheap (when compared anadolu) helicopter capable c&c lpd's or lst's like that ;

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So with help of that we can gain +1 aircraft carrier(anadolu ucav carrier) and mugem .

And if we build +2 helicopeter deceked lst/lpd .

With help of that we can establish 2 carrier strike group with each one have ;

1 Aircraft carrier
1 Lpd/Lst
2 Lst (Bayraktar/Ertuğrul- Sancaktar/Osmangazi)
2 Tf-2000
2 İ Class
2 Ada Class Enhanced Asw (12x Vl Hisar + Düfas + Asroc Kind Ammo)
 
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