Earlier this month the baseline design drawings for Phase 2 (Forward Projector) of the Advanced Stabilised Glide Slope Indicator (ASGSI) project on the Canberra class Landing Helicopter Docks (LHD), were delivered by a team of Navantia Australia engineers, bringing the project to a close after 10-plus months and over 3,500 hours of engineering labour. Working together with CASG, Owen International, AGI Ltd (ASGSI system OEM) and Naval Ship Management Australia (Asset Class Prime Contractor) to deliver this project, Navantia Australia performed all of the platform integration design necessary to integrate the ASGSI into the Canberra class LHD design. The team began working on the project in September 2019 and delivered revisions to 27 LHD baseline engineering drawings, three Installation Work Packs as well as alignment documentation, test procedures, a detailed design report, Designer’s Certificate, Validation and Verification artefacts, PDR and DDR design reviews, and all the ILS deliverables required for Navy to operate and maintain this system.
Navantia Australia’s managing director, Alfonso Garcia-Valdes, said “this integrated effort has been a real credit to Navantia and a good indication to Navy of how well our team is working together. The close working relationships, flexibility, and collaboration achieved a significant engineering change in under six months where routine changes occur in around 24 months. The ASGSI system had emerging obsolescence issues that were making supportability very difficult and causing concern for the LHD Aviation capability. Navantia Australia’s engineering design team were integral to achieving the change, readily accepted the challenge, but were agile in approach as problems such as material availability during COVID19 threatened restoration of the SGSI capability.”
The Forward ASGSI system is now fully installed on both HMA Ships Canberra and Adelaide and was recently used to support the First of Class Flight Trials for the MH-60R helicopters. The Canberra class LHDs, also known as Amphibious Assault Ships, were designed by Navantia and constructed at Navantia’s Fene and Ferrol shipyards in Spain. The vessels were built up to the flight deck, launched and then transported to Australia where installation of the island superstructure and internal fit out was completed by BAE Systems Australia in Williamstown, Victoria.
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