Chaland de transport de matériel
The Chaland de transport de matériel (CTM) is a French landing craft class, also operated by the navies of Chile, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Senegal. The design is based on the American LCM-8-class landing craft and were initially ordered to support France's nuclear testing in the Pacific. Constructed in two batches, the first batch of 16 vessels have been removed from French service with some transferred to other navies, the others being discarded. The second batch consisting of 17 vessels is split, with some being transferred to other nations and some remaining in service with the French Navy. The remaining vessels in French service are being replaced with a new landing craft design. As of January 2023, it was reported that only five of the landing craft remained in French Navy service.
A maritime container vehicle on board a CTM | |
| Class overview | |
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| Operators |
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| Completed | 31 |
| Active | 5 remaining with the French Navy as of 2023; others with other navies |
| Retired | 11+ |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Landing craft |
| Displacement | 150 tonnes (150 long tons) (max) |
| Length | 23.8 m (78 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 6.35 m (20 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) |
| Range | 380 nmi (700 km; 440 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Capacity | 90 t (89 long tons; 99 short tons) |
| Troops | 200 |
| Complement | 4 |
| Armament | 2 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns |