CASE STUDIES
CASE II: US Army Logistical Support Vessel (LSV) built by VT Halter, Pascagoula, MS
 Huber, Inc. designed and provided the hydraulics and controls to operate: bow visor, bow, articulating, ramp and stern ramp. The vessel is 313'L x 60'W and can carry 2000 tons of deck cargo. The cargo can include tanks, large trucks and containers. All the vehicles can be loaded over/on forward and aft ramps.
The visor, 50 tons, is raised 90 degrees to allow the forward ramp, which is folded when stowed to extend to full length of 71'.
The LSV Class vessels are Landing Craft Capable Logistics Support Vessel's 314 feet in length with a beam of 60 feet and a draft of 12 feet. Displacement at full load is 4951 long tons and has a sustained speed of 12 knots. The vessel accommodates 32 crewmembers. The vessel is ABS classed and shall be in compliance with MARPOL and SOLAS.
The logistic Support Vehicle (LSV) will be built for the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command. For two possible missions, the ability to self-deploy and to perform landing craft operations.
The LSV can self-deploy from the U.S. to a potential theater of operations and once in the theater it can perform logistical movement of cargo.
The landing craft operations include the movement of cargo from a cargo ship to shore and shore to shore. Shore includes developed ports and beaches as well as undeveloped port and uprepared beaches. The LSV will have minimum area of 10,500 square feet suitable for rolling stock and freight containers with a minimu weight capacity of 2000 short tons.
The cargo area is configured for lift on and lift off operations of rolling stock and 20 foot containers handled by the Army's RTCH can enter by secondary ramp (aft) head first and exit the opposite end (fwd) by the beaching ramp.
This ship will be owned and operated by the Army, Reserve unit in Baltimore, MD. |
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