Navio Polivalente Logístico (NAVPOL) - Multipurpose Logistic Ship )
The Law of Programação Militar (LPM) 1998-2003 foresees, in its Program of Maintenance of the Capacity of Projecção de Força, the acquisition of Navio Polivalente Logístico (NAVPOL). This destine-if-à to contribute for the execution and fulfilment of the specific missions of the Portuguese Armed Forces and the Navy; The Navy comes studying, since 1997, the operational requirements and the features techniques the one that will have to obey this new half naval one, having been already presented upper the document that has for objectivo to enunciate the concept, the requirements of operational nature, of performance and security, the requirements technician and the diverse aspects associates to the supply of the NAVPOL.
The main programs of naval reequipamento associates to the capacity of projecção of force, short and average with priority valence in the stated periods, are the correspondents to the acquisition of a logistic multipurpose ship (NPL) and to the reequipamento of the Riflemen, meeting both already in course. The input to the job of the " NPL " meets gliding for 2005, allowing to make use of the necessary capacity of carrier, of a step force battalion. It will be endowed with organic motor boats of landing that, jointly with the 4 6 helicopters of carrier, the amphibious small boats of assault and vehicles, constitute the destined ways to make the movement ship-land-ship. The acquisition of ships of countermeasures of mines, foreseen in the approved SFN, meets differed stops after 2018. Thus, with sight to attenuate the existing limitations, it elapses, in alternative, a program of reinforcement of the reequipamento of the divers, in the direction to be able to operate up to 90 meters of depth and to be endowed with material with detention and inactivação with mines and other explosive devices.
Summary of the main tasks? To participate in operations of bracket to the peace; To participate in operations of humanitarian bracket (including evacuations medical); To execute shares of naval presence; To participate in amphibious or joint operations, integrating national forces, multinationals or NATO, assuring and supporting its landing; To guarantee the sustentation of the forces disembarked, including the bracket sanitary, until the fond a of reinforcements, in case of continued operations; To effect the carrier of staff and material, with incidence in the reinforcement of the archipelagoes of the Açores and the Wood; Logisticamente to carry, to disembark and to support, nominated when involved units and national or foreign forces military in operations of bracket to the peace and humanitarians under the auspices of the ONU or OSCE;
To collaborate in tasks in the scope of the multilateral cooperation, nominated with the forças/fuzileiros of the lusófonos African countries (PALOP); To effect operations of public interest, in the scope of the National Job of Civil Protection, appointedly in situations of public calamity; To consist as bracket platform the illicit operations of against-terrorism, combat to the drug traffic and other acts in the sea, supporting forces of riflemen, divers and other branches and forces of security, if necessary; Actuar as ship of quarter-general embarked in national operations of average spread; Actuar as ship-head of amphibious operational groups, in operations multinationals or NATO of small spread; Actuar as ship-head of the naval component of a joint group-task, or set-agreed, of limited scope (MCC);
Main features Total size (approx.) 162 m Maximum mouth (approx.) 25 m Pontal 17 m Been silent (approx.) 5 m Maximum speed (approx.) 18 we Life in fuel 6 000 miles Life in victuals 30 days (+ 19 days) Shift of projecto 10,215 ton
