{"id":3732,"date":"2023-01-25T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:11:26","slug":"first-dutch-lcu-starts-mid-life-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"First Dutch LCU starts mid-life upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The first of five landing craft utility vessels operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy has begun its mid-life upgrade.<\/strong><br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" class=\"wp-image-3733\" style=\"width: 1200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2023-01-25-First-Dutch-LCU-starts.jpg\" alt=\"2023 01 25 First Dutch LCU starts mid-life upgrade\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2023-01-25-First-Dutch-LCU-starts.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2023-01-25-First-Dutch-LCU-starts-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2023-01-25-First-Dutch-LCU-starts-768x388.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em>The Dutch navy has started the MLU of its fleet of five LCUs, which were built in the late 1990s. (Photo by Derek Fox)<\/em><br><br>The first of five landing craft utility (LCU) Mk IX vessels operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy has begun its mid-life upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first unit, L 9525, entered dry dock at De Haas Shipyards in Rotterdam on 21 January, according to the Dutch Materiel Organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dutch navy&#8217;s LCU vessels were ordered from Visser Dockyard in Den Helder in 2012 and were delivered between 2014 and 2016. The mid-life upgrade program will modernize these vessels to extend their operational life and improve their capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vessels have a full load displacement of 255 tonnes, a length of 30 meters, and are designed to transport personnel, vehicles, and equipment from ship to shore. The upgrade will include improvements to navigation systems, communications equipment, and other onboard systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.janes.com\/defence-news\/news-detail\/first-dutch-lcu-starts-mid-life-upgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Janes Defence News <\/a>by Kate Tringham, 25 January 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Paul Binder <\/a>(\u00a9XAirForces Aerospace Industry News Editor from France \/ Sweden)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xairforces.net\/newsd.asp?newsid=3207&amp;newst=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">First Dutch LCU starts mid-life upgrade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of five landing craft utility vessels operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy has begun its mid-life upgrade. The Dutch navy has started the MLU of its fleet of five LCUs, which were&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1727],"tags":[3896,3899,3893,3897,3892,3894,3898,3895,188,3900,3891],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}