The young man's first aircraft carrier.
North Africa's "pocket aircraft carrier", the Algerian Navy's Karat Beni Abes "Logistics Support Landing Ship" (BDSL), built by the Italian Fincantini shipbuilding group Palermo (Sicily) shipyard, delivered in 2014.
The 9,000-ton class, which runs directly to the flight deck, can berth 3 to 5 NH-90 class 10-ton carrier-based helicopters, with a dock at the rear, and the mechanized landing craft (LCU) is placed on the gondola rack on the left side of the hull, but like its prototype, the three 8,000-ton San Giorgio class served by the Italian Navy from 1988 to 1994, it has no hangar, and the carrier aircraft can only "run naked" on the deck, unable to shield the wind and rain (similar design also has the 14,000-ton Japanese Osumi class amphibious transport ship).
The ship's anti-aircraft firepower is good, the rotary phased array radar on the main mast is used by the Italian version of the FREMM frigate, and there are 8 units hanging from the rear of the island, which can launch the "Aster-15" medium-range ship-to-air missile.
Recently, the construction of the same type of ship purchased by Qatar has also begun, and such a positioning is indeed very popular, and the Italians are very interested.
