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As construction of the first of the UK Royal
Navy’s new aircraft carriers continues at
the Cammell Laird shipyard, Habia Cable
has become involved in the design and
supply of custom multi-core and defence
standard approved cables for the project.
The Habia Cable range of defence
standard naval cables includes defence
standard approved wires and cables and
custom designed multi-core cables to
defence standard 61-12 part 25. Habia
Cable supplies defence standard wires and
cables for a wide range of applications.
The primary cores are to defence standard
61-12 part 18 and the jacket conforms to
61-12 part 31.
The QEC class aircraft carriers, HMS Queen
Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, are
due to enter service in 2014 and 2016,
respectively, and each ship will have an
operational range of 10,000 nautical miles
and the capacity to carry 40 aircraft, a
ship crew of 600 and an airgroup crew of
up to 900. Each ship will contain over 2.5
million metres of cable.
At 280 metres long and 70 metres wide,
the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers
will be bigger than any aircraft carriers
currently in service, and will provide four
acres of sovereign territory, anywhere in
the world.
Propulsion will be provided by two
Rolls-Royce Marine 36MW MT30 gas
turbine alternators and four Wartsila 38
diesel engines.
The gas turbines and diesels are the
largest supplied to the Royal Navy
and their combined power feeds the
low-voltage system and the shaft driven
propellers, with total installed power
approaching 110MW.
CVF will carry over 8,600 tons of fuel to
support both the vessel and aircraft.
The aircraft carrier’s hanger deck is 155m
long, 33.5m wide and up to 10m high,
accommodating up to 20 fixed and rotary
wing aircraft.
The maximum launch rate is 24 aircraft
in 15 minutes and the maximum
recovery rate is 24 aircraft in 24 minutes.
The CVF is three times larger than the
20,000t UK Invincible Class carriers and
the hull will be nine-decks deep plus the
flight deck.
The carrier will support joint combat
aircraft carrying out up to 420 sorties over
five days and be able to conduct day and
night time operations. The maximum
sortie rate is 110 joint combat aircraft
sorties in a 24-hour period.
Habia Cable – Sweden
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Cables for new aircraft carriers
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