{"id":11621,"date":"2011-10-15T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:02:09","slug":"chile-upgrades-their-amphibious-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/15\/chile-upgrades-their-amphibious-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile upgrades their amphibious capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief item from the invaluable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/htmw\/htamph\/articles\/20111015.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Strategy Page<\/a> talks about Chile&#8217;s most recent naval acquisition:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chile is buying the French amphibious ship <em>Foudre<\/em>, which is being replaced by a more recent design. The 12,000 ton <em>Foudre<\/em> has been in service for 21 years and could, with some refurbishment, serve another two decades or more. The 168 meter (521 feet) long ship has a crew of 160 and carries up to 70 vehicles. The well deck contains eight landing craft and there is a hangar that carries up to four helicopters. There are accommodations for 450 troops (or double that for short voyages). The <em>Foudre<\/em> can also be used as a command ship, which spaces for 150 headquarters personnel and their equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Chile will use the <em>Foudre<\/em> to replace an 8,700 ton, 40 year old, American <em>Newport<\/em> class LPD. This ship was retired earlier this year, as it was considered too expensive to refurbish it. France has also offered Chile the second ship of the <em>Foudre<\/em> class, which is scheduled to retire from French service in a few years. The price of the <em>Foudre<\/em> to Chile has not been revealed. It will be cheap, and will depend on how much refurbishment French firms will undertake. <em>Foudre<\/em> undertook several long-distance operations during its career. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief item from the invaluable Strategy Page talks about Chile&#8217;s most recent naval acquisition: Chile is buying the French amphibious ship Foudre, which is being replaced by a more recent design. The 12,000 ton Foudre has been in service for 21 years and could, with some refurbishment, serve another two decades or more. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,1117,5,683],"tags":[429,30],"class_list":["post-11621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-france","category-military","category-pacific","tag-chile","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-31r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41679,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions\/41679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}