The MTP96 class is a series of Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel used by the Italian Navy and Italian Army.[1]
Class overview | |
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Name | MTP96 class |
Builders | Studioplast, Casale sul Sile (Venezia) and various shipyards |
Operators | |
In service | 1996 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel |
Displacement | |
Length | 13.1 m (43 ft 0 in) LOA |
Beam | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) over all |
Draft | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
Depth | 0.7 m (2 ft 4 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | 100 nmi (190 km; 120 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 3 |
History
editTwenty of these crafts are operated aboard the three San Giorgio-class ships and used by the San Marco Marine Brigade at Brindisi Naval Station homeport. A few others are used by 1st Lagunari Regiment "Serenissima" of the Italian Army in the Venice lagoon.
Landing craft
editName | Pennant number |
Hull number |
Launched | Commissioned | Notes | |||||
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Italian Navy - MTP96 class | ||||||||||
MTP96 | MDN94 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN95 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN96 | |||||||||
MTP97 | MDN97 | [2] | ||||||||
MTP96 | MDN98 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN99 | [3] | ||||||||
MTP96 | MDN100 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN101 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN102 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN103 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN104 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN108 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN109 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN114 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN115 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN116 | [4] | ||||||||
MTP96 | MDN117 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN118 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN119 | |||||||||
MTP96 | MDN120 | [5] | ||||||||
Italian Army - MTP96 class | ||||||||||
MTP96 | 287 | 2002 | [6] | |||||||
MTP96 | ||||||||||
MTP96 | ||||||||||
MTP96 |
References
edit- ^ "Marina Militare". www.marina.difesa.it. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27.
- ^ http://www.fiammeblu.it/albums/userpics/10002/2008_0921_131632AA.JPG [bare URL image file]
- ^ http://www.seaforces.org/spcrep/ITS-San-Marco-L-9893-Trieste-August-2008-Dateien/image085.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ http://www.fiammeblu.it/albums/userpics/10002/2008_0921_131647AA.JPG [bare URL image file]
- ^ http://www.marina.difesa.it/sites/AMC1/SiteCollectionImages/a329ae04-6b8f-4287-8399-bf9e573706b3/06a5ba80-0dd1-4b5e-a4d9-6182766cf702_COT4607_resize.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ http://www.associazionelagunari.it/images/mtp16.jpg [bare URL image file]
External links
edit- Ships Marina Militare website