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The HSC L140 is the only strategic platform that can deliver quickly troops and equipment together in sufficient size to bring immediate combat power to bear. While in transit, commanders could conduct en route planning and receive intelligence updates, and the troops drive the combat system from the ship ready to fight onward to the tactical assembly area.
Rapid reaction force deployment
Fleet logistic support
The HSC L140 program is a direct result of an expressed need from the modern Navies to cover different fast tactical transport, logistical, humanitarian and peace-keeping missions.
The HSC L140 can carry troop soldiers, transport armoured vehicles, trucks, military vehicles, containers and helicopters at 36 knots fully loaded in rough seas. Thanks to of the configuration of the HSC cargo deck, the vessel can accommodate 112 units of Hummer, 25 Panther helicopters and 1500 soldiers, which can be self-deployed from the cargo deck to any port having 5 meters draft.
Strategic operations (long range, 1500 pax capacity and over 900 lane meters at 36 knots)
Tactical missions
Cargo stern loading/unloading
Self-defense capability for very close range
Crew served weapons
Helicopter deck
Additional fuel tanks and water-making capacity
Stern ramp modifications to accept an extension for military use
Other models in our military line : HSC N75 II, HSC N130A, HSC N130S