{"id":8637,"date":"2019-07-30T17:32:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2019-07-30T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:02:20","slug":"amphibious-ship-lcu-l-56-commissioned-into-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/amphibious-ship-lcu-l-56-commissioned-into-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphibious ship LCU L-56 commissioned into Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>IN\nLCU L-56, the sixth ship of the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) MK IV class has\nbeen commissioned into the Indian Navy.<\/li><li>LCU\n56 is an amphibious ship. Its primary role is transportation and deployment of\nMain Battle Tanks, Armoured Vehicles, Troops and Equipment from ship to shore.<\/li><li>It\nhas a displacement of 900 tonnes. It measures 62 metres in length. It is fitted\nwith two MTU diesel engines, which provide a sustainable speed of over 15\nknots. The ship is equipped with the state-of-art equipment and is armed with\ntwo 30 mm CRN-91 guns. <\/li><li>The\nship has been indigenously designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and\nEngineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata <\/li><li>The\nship would be administered and based in Port Blair under the Naval Component\nCommander (NAVCC) in Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC).<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN LCU L-56, the sixth ship of the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) MK IV class has been commissioned into the Indian Navy. LCU 56 is an amphibious ship. Its primary role is transportation and deployment of Main Battle Tanks, Armoured Vehicles, Troops and Equipment from ship to shore. It has a displacement of 900 tonnes.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/amphibious-ship-lcu-l-56-commissioned-into-navy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amphibious ship LCU L-56 commissioned into Navy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6605],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-lcu-l-56","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704627662},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}