Thousands of mattresses, pillows and doonas, tonnes of food and water and 400 sailors, soldiers and air force personnel have been installed on the navy’s newest and biggest ship — the 27,800-tonne HMAS Canberra.
Known as a Landing Helicopter Dock or LHD — the $1.5 billion warship will be commissioned into service with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and handed over to Navy Chief Vice-Admiral Tim Barrett at Garden Island in Sydney on Friday.
The crew of Nuship Canberra (she actually becomes HMAS Canberra at commissioning) have spent the past 18 months training on advanced land based simulators preparing to take control of the most advanced ship to ever serve in the RAN.
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It may well cost an extra $300 million to modify these two ships to operate fighter jump jets from them, but the true cost of 'reassigning' them as aircraft carriers will be due to them becoming 'high end' targets. Extra escort ships - including three more AWD's and a submarine capability necessitating genuine speed and endurance will mean, as well as high end on board defence systems means that many billions of extra dollars would be required. This is highly unlikely in the current strategic and economic environment.
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