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| Name: | Engin de débarquement amphibie rapide |
| Operator: | French Navy |
| Builder: | Socarenam |
| Completed: | 2011 |
| Acquired: | 8 |
| In service: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Roll-on/roll-off catamaran landing craft |
| Tonnage: | tons (light) |
| Length: | 30 metres (98 feet 43 inches) |
| Beam: | 12.8 metres (42 feet) |
| Draft: | 2.5 metres (8 feet 2 inches, fully loaded) 0.6 metres (2 feet, empty) |
| Installed power: | Four MTU Friedrichshafen 12V2000 M92 Diesel engines each producing 300 kW |
| Propulsion: | Four Wärtsilä Pump-jets |
| Speed: | 20 kts (economical) 30 kts (warranted) |
| Range: | 1,000 NM @ 15 kts (laden) |
| Capacity: |
Troop capacity: Cargo capacity:
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The Engin de débarquement amphibie rapide (EDA-R) is a class of Roll-on/Roll-off catamaran landing craft ordered by the French Navy. They transport weapons systems, equipment, cargo and personnel of the assault elements from Mistral class amphibious assault ships to shore and across the beach.
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Concept design of the EDA-R began in 2000 at Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée (CNIM) then was abandoned in 2003 and relaunched in 2008 with the full-scale Landing Catamaran (L-Cat). During the development stage, one prototype was built by Gamelin Shipyard and tested during an autonomous transfer from Saint-Malo to the Military port of Toulon. On 14 October 2008, the prototype of the L-Cat beached on the shores of Toulon.[1] On March 2010, it offloads one 54-tons Leclerc main battle tank at Toulon.[2]
According to CNIM the craft delivers the performance of an aircushion landing craft but at the cost of a conventional landing craft[3].
Four units have been purchased and were presented to officials of the Navy in January 2011[4]
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