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AV20 Landing Craft Combatant

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Class overview
Builders: Algiers Maritime Engineering, Smith Island,  Meridon
Operators:  Meridonian Navy
In service: 1990-present
Planned: 120
Completed: 120
Active: 120
General characteristics
Class and type: air-cushioned landing craft
Tonnage: 185 tons, full load
Length: 86.5ft
Beam: 44.5ft
Propulsion: 4x gas turbines powering two airfans
Speed: In excess of 35 knots
Range: 300 nmi at 35kn without payload
Complement: 6
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • MATCA combined AHRS/INS navigational system, RRLP-in
  • Delta SM33 surface search and navigational radar
  • VM-40 multifunction short-range air engagement radar
  • NO-150B electro-optical gun tracking sight
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Offboard chaff, flare, and smoke launchers
Armament:
  • 1x Type 40 25mm RCG rotary cannon
  • 4x MSA-79 Rapier missiles
  • 19x RSS-16 Shortspear unguided rockets
  • 19x Type 318 30mm chaingun
  • Mounts for crew-served weaponry
Armor: 30mm kevlar over engines

The AV20 Landing Craft Combatant is a class of air-cushioned landing craft in service with and being produced for the Meridonian Navy. Designed as a revision of existing amphibious landing crafts and addressing needs both for integration into the Comprehensive Commando Carrying Initiative (CCC-I) and for domestic transport and disaster response duties, the AV20 has served as the primary ship-to-shore cargo transport for the Meridon Defense Forces since its inception in the 1990s. It is unique in its mounting of a Type 40 25mm RCG similar to the types utilized on HMMAV air defense vehicles.