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BMT announces Ellida Strike concept to align with Royal Navy MRSS requirement
Ahead of DSEI 2025, BMT have unveiled the Ellida Strike concept, the boldest evolution yet in BMT’s family of amphibious ship designs. Developed as an option to inform the recapitalisation of the RN’s amphibious fleet, it presents a vision of what a future Multi-Role Strike Ship could deliver in both combat and humanitarian operations.…..
At 213m in length, 35m in beam, a 7m draught and displacing around 29,500 tonnes, ES is significantly larger than the legacy Albion class LPDs. The scale reflects both the RN’s complex outline requirements together with weight, space and power margins to support upgrades to sustain the vessel in service into the 2060s.
A key theme of the Ellida Strike design is that it is conceived as a warship rather than an auxiliary. The ship is intended to operate at the high end of conflict as well as in benign environments, with the resilience and survivability expected of a combatant.
It is envisaged that the ship would be equipped with self-defence weapons in the form of 2 x Bofors 40mm Mk 4 cannons, 2 x DragonFire-type LDEW mounts and 2 x Ancilia airborne decoy launchers.
More unusually for an amphibious vessel, the ship will have an integrated mast with an advanced radar fit and a combat system. Ellida Strike could also serve as a distributed effector within the RN’s Future Air Dominance System (
FADS) architecture.
Capable of launching its missiles cued from external platforms or operating independently providing air defence for smaller task groups. Although cost and customer appetite will define the weapon fit and number of cells, the design has capacity for multiple strike-length Mk 41 VLS……
The ship features a hangar that can accommodate up to 4 Merlin-sized helicopters or a mix of UAVs. The flight deck is large enough to land two CH-47 Chinooks – a very substantial aviation capability upgrade over the Albion-class LPDs.…
Where Albion required more than 300 personnel, ES aspires to operate with a core crew of around 100, leveraging advanced platform management systems, automated firefighting and connected monitoring technology.
People are at the heart of the ES design, and although the ship’s company is small, there is full accommodation in bunks for 700 people. This includes the Embarked Military Force, the command staff, air group personnel, medical teams and miscellaneous other augmentees.
The EMF is designed to include 250 troops that could land ashore plus their support personnel. 350 marines could be carried in overload condition for short periods in austere accommodation.…..