Italian ship USSP
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Italy |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Italy|naval}} |Ship name=USSP |Ship namesake=Unità Supporto Subacqueo Polivalente - Multipurpose submarine rescue vessel |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Fincantieri |Ship original cost=planned for € (EUR) 434 million{{Cite web | url=http://www.difesa.it/Amministrazionetrasparente/segredifesa/navarm/Documents/maggio_17/Programmazione_biennale_2017_18_Aggiornamento_Mag_2017.pdf | title=Unknown }}{{Dead link| date=July 2024 | fix-attempted=yes}} |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate= |Ship status=Financed with 2017's balance law |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Submarine rescue ship |Ship displacement= {{convert|10.500|t|LT|abbr=on|lk=in}} full load {{Cite web|url=https://prezi.com/wilubz4y30-p/stato-maggiore-marina/|title = Stato Maggiore Marina}} |Ship length=*- {{convert|131.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} LOA
|Ship beam= {{convert|23|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship depth= {{convert|9|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion=*- All Electric Plant
|Ship speed= {{convert|18|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= {{convert|6000|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} to {{convert|12|kn|lk=in}} |Ship endurance= 30 days |Ship complement=*- 80 crew
|Ship sensors=*- Leonardo CMS SADOC Mk4
|Ship EW= EW system |Ship armament=*- 1 × Oto Melara 76/62 mm Strales Anti-aircraft gun
|Ship armour= |Ship aircraft= |Ship notes=*- embarked deployable Submarine Rescue System (SRS), like DRASS Galeazzi SRV-650
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USSP is a planned Submarine rescue ship of the Marina Militare, financed with 2017's balance law.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fincantieri.com/en/products-and-services/naval-vessels/logistic-support-ships/|title=Fincantieri | Logistic Support Ships|access-date=11 December 2016|archive-date=20 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420074147/https://www.fincantieri.com/en/products-and-services/naval-vessels/logistic-support-ships/|url-status=dead}}
It is expected to replace Italian ship Anteo (A 5309).
Functions
USSP will be a multipurpose ship, thought to accomplish different missions:{{Cite web | url=https://www.fincantieri.com/globalassets/common/sliders/images-common-caption-full-width-sliderblock/navi-militari/fincantieri_supporto_subacqueo_top.jpg | format=JPG | title=USSP drawing}}
- Submarine Rescue, through a deployable Submarine Rescue System (SRS), embarked on the stern portion of the weather deck. The ship is also fitted to host, as an alternative, either NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) or US Navy SRDRS; DRASS Galeazzi SRV-650 is expected as SRS
- Diving Support, through an organic saturation system (SAT), located amidships, which includes two hyperbaric chambers (up to 6 persons each), one transfer under pressure (TUP) system, one hyperbaric boat (up to 16 persons), one working bell (300 m beneath the surface), operated through a dedicated moon-pool
- Hydro-Oceanographic activities, by means of specific sensor suite and hardware, including echo-sounder, Doppler log, Sub bottom profiler, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, etc.
- Gruppo Operativo Incursori support, by hosting and deploying special forces and relevant equipment.
History
USSP program beginning on 2010 when parliamentary defence commission approved the act "[http://documenti.camera.it/leg16/dossier/Testi/DI0273_0.htm Programma pluriennale di A/R n. SMD 02/2010, relativo all'acquisizione di un'unità navale di supporto subacqueo polivalente di ARS/NAI]" (Multi-year program for multi-purpose Submarine support naval unit).
ARS/NAI vessel was fitted for a cost of € (EUR) 125 million, then updated to 300 and, finally, to 434 million Euros.
In June 2021, the contract was awarded to the Mariotti shipyard in Genoa.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ansa.it/liguria/notizie/2021/06/08/difesa-di-mariotti-nuova-unita-navale-soccorso-sommergibili_a245afab-a00e-42db-953f-e1de36d575c3.html |title=Difesa: di Mariotti nuova unità navale soccorso sommergibili - Notizie|date=8 June 2021|website=Agenzia ANSA}}
Sensors
- 2 x High Precision Acoustic Positioning
- 1 x Single Beam Echo-Sound
- 3 x Multi Beam Echo-Sound
- 3 x Side Scan Sonars
- 1 x Sub Bottom Profiler
- 1 x Underwater Telephone
- 2 x Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers
- 3 x Current Profilers
- 1 x Wave Buoy
- 1 x Gradiometer
- 1 x Marine Magnetometer
- 1 x Gravimeter System
- 1 x Vibrocorer
- 3 x Grab Samplers
- 1 x Box Corer
- 1 x Corer
- 1 x CTD Sounder
- 1 x Doppler Log
- 1 x Expendable Bathythermograph
Deployable equipment
- 1 x McCann Rescue Chamber
- 1 x Ventilation system for damaged
- 1 x submarine control of depressurization included
- 1 x ADS - Atmospheric diving suit
- 1 x ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle working {{convert|3000|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
- 1 x ROV watching {{convert|3000|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
- 1 x ROV light working {{convert|1000|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
- 1 x AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle {{convert|3000|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.marina.difesa.it/EN/thefleet/home/Pagine/home_ships.aspx Ships] Marina Militare website
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Category:Submarine rescue ships
Category:Auxiliary ships of the Italian Navy