LST 525 - 5612 RORO multipurpose landing ship tank
The 5612 Roro (roll-on/roll-off) multipurpose landing ship tank is based on Dutch shipbuilder Damen’s RoRo 5612 amphibious ship design. The ship, with a length of 57.27m, width of 12m, water displacement of 600 tons, and speed of 10.4 knots per hour, is tasked with transporting light amphibious armored vehicles as well as supplies to islands.
The new landing craft are expected to improve the amphibious transport, logistics and mobility capability of the Vietnamese Armed Forces, with emphasis on transporting trucks and light armored vehicles of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), as well as shipping containers, goods and passengers including armed troops. The 5612 multipurpose landing ship tank is operated by a crew of 16 people.
The deck equipment of the RoRo 5612 includes one anchor winches 3x DMT 10 m/min, one deck crane 14 tons at 19.50 mtrsan and a capstan 3 tons, 15 m/min. It is powered by two 2x MTU type 12V2000M61/1A engine and it can sail at a maximum speed of 10.5 knots. Navigation and communication equipment includes a GMDSS A3 Radar, a magnetic compass, gyrocompass, GPS, echo sounder, autopilot, AIS, and a speedlog.
The Damen Stan Lander range is designed to fulfil all kinds of logistic support operations based on the traditional Landing Craft functionalities. Implementing many smart design features the Damen Landing Ship design boosts flexibility, creating vessels with more value throughout their entire lifetime.
December 27, 2019, Vietnamese Navy signed a contract to build a new Roro 5612 multipurpose amphibious transport ship constructed at Song Thu Corporation in Vietnam. This is the fourth Roro 5612 class of the Vietnam Navy that will receive YN541056 number. The RoRo 5612 vessel was already built in Vietnam for the Royal Bahamas defense force. It was launched at Halong Shipyard in Vietnam, July 2019, according to Damen statement.
Da Nang-based shipbuilder, Song Thu Corporation launched on 22 June 2020 the third indigenous 5612 multipurpose landing ship tank for the Vietnam People’s Navy (H?i quân nhân dân Vi?t Nam). The ceremony was held in the company’s shipyard in Da Nang. Song Thu Corporation is a shipbuilder under the General Department of Defense Industry under the Ministry of National Defense. While Vietnamese shipyards have produced these ships in the past for Royal Bahamas defense force, this is the first time the Vietnam People’s Navy had ordered this vessel. It was given the hull number 528, in line with the hull numbering of its sisterships, which were originally built for the Venezuelan Army, but was turned over to the VPN after they failed to pay for the ships.
Additionally, there were currently three extra RoRo 5612 ships built by Vietnam for Venezuela that were never delivered due to the ongoing Venezuelan political/social crisis. A fourth ship of the class was also under construction by Song Thu Corporation. The Ha Long One-member Shipbuilding Co.Ltd., under the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, successfully launched two more troop-carrier ships Roro 5612 numbered 3 and 4 for the Venezuelan Navy on 23 September 2015. The ships, designed and equipped by the Dutch Damen Group, were built for the Latin American country under the supervision of the French register BV.
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