AS Adelaide (L03) is the second ship of the Canberra Class - Landing Dock Aviation. The lead ship is AS Canberra (L02) which is currently undergoing an extended planned maintenance period and upgrade at Fleet Base East. Both ships are home-ported at Fleet Base East in Sydney and will regularly operate out of Townsville, the location of Lavarack Barracks, home of the Australian Army's 3rd Brigade. In addition to being located in North Queensland (which is close to Asia and the Pacific Islands), one of the 3rd Brigade's infantry battalions, the 2nd Battalion (Australian Regiment (2 AR)) was selected to become the Army's specialist amphibious infantry battalion.
Aircraft embarked include the Lockheed Martin F-35B VSTOL (from 805 Squadron in Nowra NSW), Sikorsky HH-60H "Support Hawk" (from 808 Squadron in Nowra NSW), Sikorsky MH-60R "Seahawk" (from 725 Squadron in Nowra NSW) and the Boeing CH-47D and CH-47F "Chinook" (5 Aviation Regiment, AAF Base Townsville QLD).
The class also embarked 4 LCM-1E amphibious mechanised landing craft.
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