Damen LST 120 Landing Ship Transport

The DAMEN Landing Ship range is a state-of-the-art flexible Class designed to fulfil all traditional Landing Ship mission requirements, as well as the support and secondary mission tasks required by modern naval platforms of this size. Implementing many smart design features the DAMEN Landing Ship design boosts flexibility, creating vessels with more value throughout their entire lifetime.

The Damen’s LST vessels range in length from 80m to 120m overall. All LST family has aft deckhouse, a protected internal cargo deck and flexible, and a helicopter dek aft of the deckhouse. LST range operation profile comprises includes amphibious operations, transport & logistics, maritime security operations, humanitarian aid & disaster relief, search & rescue support, operation command, etc. Damen Landing Ships include various essential design features, such as a design optimised for minimum wading depths. LST family’s bow and stern ramps are designed for handling vehicles up to 70 tonnes. The vessels have high degree of survivability by means of double hull arrangement.

• Efficient drive through RoRo principle; 

• Stern ramp for efficient loading and unloading in port;

• Stern beach for efficient transfer to/from landing craft;

• Bow ramp and rake of keel for optimum wading depth and direct transfer to/from beach;

• 4 embarked LCVP;

• Helicopter/UAV deck;

• UUV/USV deployment capable;

• 25 t deck crane.