EW January 2011

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Cables for new aircraft carriers

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 Fax : +46 8630 7481 Email : info@habia.com Website : www.habia.com The most recent issue of power & trends , the customer newspaper of wire and cable machinery manufacturer Maschinenfabrik Niehoff, is now available, free of charge, from any Niehoff office, subsidiary or from the website. power & trends 2/2010 provides equipment and company news and is printed in English, Chinese and German with a Russian summary. Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG – Germany News and views

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.

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

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