Picture: AAP/Supplied by the Department of Defence, Leo BaumgartnerIt has six spaces on its vast deck to recover and launch helicopters concurrently.It has internal parking for up to 110 vehicles, and four small landing craft to carry them.It can comfortably accommodate 1100 troops with all their combat equipment.Equally important, HMAS Adelaide has extensive communications and command facilities from which to co-ordinate large scale, complicated operations.Australia’s navy has gathered extensive experience in using its landing helicopter dock in disaster relief.In 2019, HMAS Adelaide visited the Solomon Islands to test its capabilities with New Zealand in exercise Render Safe.In 2016, HMAS Canberra’s very first operational mission was to rush relief efforts to Fiji after Cyclone Winston. Choules was bought as an emergency stopgap measure after the navy admitted an embarrassing capability gap when it was incapable of assisting relief efforts in Queensland after Cyclone Yasi in 2011.“Climate change is predicted to make disasters more extreme and more common,” Australia’s Defence Chief Angus Campbell warned a government gathering last year.“Deploying troops on numerous disaster relief missions, at the same time, may stretch our capability and capacity. HMAS Canberra is the lead ship of the two ship Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships otherwise known as a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD). They'll receive a personal thanks from the New South Wales Governor for their efforts battling devastating bushfires across the state. Based on the Buque de Proyección Estratégica (Strategic Projection Ship) design by Spanish shipbuilders Navantia. "Petty Officer Boatswain Kenneth Bateson (right) assists a role playing evacuee disembark from a LHD landing craft onboard HMAS Canberra during a Defence Aid to the Civil Community exercise.Lance Corporal Melissa Ellis from the Australian Army’s 4th Brigade was one of the role players and said it was rewarding to see Navy and Army working together for the benefit of Australians and partner nations.“I just spent two months participating in Op BUSHFIRE ASSIST, so to be part of this exercise as a role player has been really eye opening, and it's interesting to see how Navy conducts these type of operations from their side,” Lance Corporal Ellis said.“Coming in through the dock and seeing the ship up close and how the multi-service crew works together was phenomenal.“The hospitality has been amazing and it solidifies for me that we are a world-leading Defence Force ready to assist in times of need.” Picture: Sunday Telegraph/ Gaye GerardBut critics say these huge amphibious assault ships were built to fight the last war.Their precursors were incredibly useful in the island-hopping campaigns of World War II. They can deliver and recover people and vehicles from shore. Their survival is dependent upon a handful of defensive weapons carried by their few escorts.Such is the threat to these big, valuable ships that the new commander of the US Marine Corps last year declared he wants to scrap them.They can operate where there are no deepwater ports. Published on March 01, 2020 by LEUT Jessica Craig (author), ABIS Jarrod Mulvihill (photographer) A LHD Landing Craft enters the dock of HMAS Canberra whilst at anchor in Westernport Bay, Victoria, during a Defence Aid to the Civil Community exercise. HMAS Adelaide (LHD 02) has been playing a pivotal role in the Navy's contribution to Operation Bushfire Assist alongside HMAS Choules and MV Sycamore demonstrating the capability offered by the vessel and its sister, HMAS Canberra. But critics say these huge amphibious assault ships were built to fight the last war. The ship is now positioned in Twofold Bay near Eden and has been conducting liaison meetings with local authorities, police and fire crews. HMAS Adelaide is the most potent disaster relief asset Australia can offer.Reservists are assembling aboard the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) assault ship to spearhead an escalation in the battle against catastrophic fires and deliver urgent disaster relief.ADF Chief General Angas Campbell painted a picture of what to expect: “The announcements today see a lift in our naval on-water presence … an increase in the number of aircraft and helicopters operating in affected areas involving Chinook helicopters, multi-role helicopters, light liaison helicopters, as well as P-8 surveillance aircraft, C-17, C-130 and C-27-J transport and lift aircraft.”At its heart will be one of Australia’s largest warships, HMAS Adelaide.HMAS Adelaide leaving Sydney. It is a floating airfield for a fleet of helicopters. HMAS Canberra played a starring role in Sydney’s Australia Day celebrations as the centrepiece of the traditional Salute to Australia on Sydney Harbour.
Picture: AAP Image/Bianca De MarchiHMAS Adelaide carries an enormous array of facilities that can be adapted to respond to almost any disaster.It displaces 27,500 tonnes, is 230m long, can move at a maximum 21 knots (38.9km/h) and can travel 16,600km without having to refuel.Costing about $1.5 billion, HMAS Adelaide is much bigger and more capable in almost every respect over HMAS Choules, which featured so prominently in pulling 1000 people off Mallacoota beach in Victoria this week.HMAS Adelaide has an on-board medical facility which is better equipped than many regional hospitals.Deputy Maritime Logistics Officer Lieutenant Fred Bates and Assistant Maritime Logistics Officer and Lieutenant Roger Jolly prepare supplies.
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