This is a Watercraft Minecraft Project Contest entry.



The L9020 CPC Foudre is a fictional Cruiser Helicopter Landing Dock operated by the 2035 french navy "Marine nationale". It is named after the TCD Foudre, an old Landing Platform Dock from the Marine Nationale.
This ship is meant to support amphibious landings thanks to its well dock and helicopter capability. This cruiser is also an anti air and anti ballistic platform thanks to its armament (that does allow it to be defined as a cruiser). This ship is also capable of holding a full military staff for commandment purposes and finally it does also include an hospital with around 150 beds.

It is armed with 8x8 VLS cells (total of 64) holding Aster 15, 30 and aster block 2, 2x advanced Crotale launchers holding each 8 Crotale missiles with 32 missiles stored, 1x 40mm remotely controled canon and 3x 20mm manned machineguns.

It is also equiped with 2 Decoy Launchers.

The aviation hangar can hold up to 30 aircrafts in a normal configuration (12 VTOL Transport Aircrafts, 5 Heavy Lift Helicopters, 5 Attack Helicopters, 3 Medium Helicopters and 5 Light / ASW Helicopters. The flight deck is composed of 8 landing spots with 2 aircraft elevators as well as 2 armament elevators.
The well dock can hold from 4 to 7 landing crafts (depending on their size). With a vehicle hangar able to carry 100 vehicles from the light reconaissance jeep to the MBT.

The ship is propelled by 4 Azimuth Thrusters and powered by four boilers, and four steam turbine located above the azimuth thrusters.
With that, the ship can rely on 4 horizontal stabilizer that can rotate as well as 2 bow thrusters to help steering the ship.

The crew is composed of 1000 sailors and 75 officers, bringing the crew to a total of 1075 with an additionnal 2000 troops.



The dimensions of the ship are:

247m long

45m wide (horizontal stabilizer included)

69m high



The pictures are as following:

Renders - Close Up with texture pack on - Close Up with texture pack off

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Special thanks to Volke who provided me the renders! Go check him out!