Song Thu Built Fourth Roro 5612 Amphibious Assault Ship for Vietnamese Navy

27 Desember 2019

The signing ceremony of building a new Roro 5612 multipurpose amphibious transport ship for the Vietnamese Navy (photos : BaoDatViet)

On the morning of December 27 in Da Nang, the signing ceremony of building a new Roro 5612 multipurpose amphibious transport ship for the Vietnamese Navy.

The versatile Roro 5612 amphibious transport ship is a product designed by the Dutch Damen Shipbuilding Group and constructed at Song Thu Corporation at the order of the Vietnamese People's Navy.

According to initial information, this is the fourth Roro 5612 of the Vietnam Navy bearing number YN541056, it is worth noting that previously there was no information about the Song Thu building 3 new Roro 5612s to serve the needs inland.

Therefore, it is very likely that we have received 3 Roro 5612s, which were manufactured by Song Thu Corporation at the order of the Venezuelan Navy but because of the insolvency of the partner, we cannot deliver the ship.

According to information from the manufacturer, the versatile Damen Roro 5612 amphibious transport vessel has basic parameters including a length of 57.27 m; width of 12 m; amount of water expansion of 600 tons full load; maximum speed 10.4 knots/h.

Unlike conventional amphibious ships that can approach the coast to land, the Damen Roro 5612 is only capable of landing on the sea or at suitable dock positions due to its role in the shock force.

The design of the Damen Roro 5612 is suitable for transporting and supplying islands, it can carry light amphibious armored vehicles, ships that cannot carry tanks or armored vehicles, heavy steel.

Notably, the versatile amphibious assault ship Damen Roro 5612 is designed to carry 42 containers. The carrying of the container makes it possible to equip puppet launchers Klub-K puppet looks like normal cargo containers.

This is the direction that Vietnam has expressed deep concern and at the same time, it was "suggested" by the Russian side to strengthen the power of "sea guerrilla tactics" while the scale of missile fleet is not really big.

Not only Klub-K with supersonic missiles 3M54, in the future Vietnam is fully capable of building a variant "domestic Klub-K" with containers containing KCT 15 and loaded onto Roro. 5612 to increase the autonomy of weaponry.

(BaoDatViet)