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LCAC Landing Craft Air

Cushion—Only $11.8 million, in- cluding $0.5 million for RDT&E, is requested in FY 1987 funding, but an additional $221.3-million re- quest, for nine LCACs, is projected for FY 1988. An air-cushion vehicle 87 feet 11 inches long and 47 feet wide, the LCAC is designed to oper- ate "over both water and land. It can be carried in the well deck of present and future amphibious ships. It has a payload capability of 120,000 pounds, and can operate at 40 knots with this load. Range capa- bility is 200 nautical miles."

LPD-4-Class Service Life

Extension Program—$31.5 mil- lion, including $8.4 million for con- tract design, is requested in FY 1987; another $97.8 million will be requested in FY 1988. The LPD-

SLEP, like the CV-SLEP, is de- signed to extend the life of ships now in the inventory—in this case, the Austin-class amphibious trans-

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Circle 237 on Reader Sen/ice Card port docks—"by 10 to 15 years" and to give them the capability "to carry two LCACs and four CH-46 helicop- ters" or equivalents. The first

LPD-4 SLEP is scheduled to begin in FY 1989.

LSD-41/CV Landing Ship

Dock Cargo Variant—No funds are requested in FY 1987, but $311.2 million will be request in FY 1988 for the first of four ships projected for future funding (down from six ships projected last year). The FY 1987 budget request does include $21.1 million in follow-on funding to finish LSD-41s previously approved and now under construction at

Lockheed Shipbuilding, Seattle, and Avondale Shipyards, New Or- leans. The LSD-41s are twin-screw, diesel-propelled amphibious assault ships, 609 feet in overall length, 84 feet at the beam, with 917 accom- modations. The "cargo variant" ver- sion "will have essentially the same hull and engineering plant. .. [but] will carry more cargo in exchange for fewer LCAC spaces." Construc- tion of the first ship is expected to begin in FY 1988.

MCM Mine Countermea- sures Ship—$18.4 million (includ- ing $9.6 million for outfitting, $8.5 million for post-delivery, and $0.3 million for contract design) is re- quested in FY 1987, with another $272.2 million (for three ships) pro- jected for FY 1988 funding. A twin- screw geared-diesel ship approxi- mately 200 feet in overall length and with an approximate beam of 37 feet, the MCM is designed to have accommodations for 80 personnel.

Peterson Builders of Sturgeon Bay,

Wis., and Marinette Marine of Ma- rinette, Wis., are building MCMs previously funded.

MSH-1 Coastal Minehunt- er—$206.1 million, including $8.5 million for outfitting and $1.5 mil- lion for contract design, is requested for four ships in FY 1987; another four ships will be funded in FY 1988 at a projected cost of $181.8 million.

The minesweeper hunter "will be approximately 150 feet in length and displace 470 tons. It will carry a crew of about 40 personnel ... and will be capable of coastal mine- clearance operations of up to five days' duration without replenish- ment." Bell Aerospace Textron is building the lead ship; "17 ships of this class are planned, with the last eight ships being recompeted."

Strategic Sealift: Ready Re- serve Force (RRF)—$27.8 mil- lion is requesed in FY 1987, with an additional $50.4 million projected for FY 1988 and $39.1 million also requested in FY 1987/88 funding for "Strategic Sealift Enhancement."

These funds are intended "To pro- vide DOD with contingency ship- ping capacity which can upon re- quest be activated for service during national emergencies and be made ready for sea through a time-phased program within five and ten days of notification." The ships expected to be used in the program will be "pur- chased from private owners and . .. placed in the RRF" (a rapid-re-

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