and recover two LHD landing craft (LLCs) medical and dental facilities including X-ray machines, operating rooms and intensive care ward. In May 2022 the BMT Group, the company that upgraded HMAS Choules when it was acquired from the Royal Navy, displayed their Ellida design at INDO PACIFIC 2022. This vessel is based on the same family of auxiliary craft as the tankers operated by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and features a large roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargo deck as well as stowage for large quantities of provisions and equipment to conduct underway replenishment. The Damen Group, the company that constructed the JSS for the Royal Netherlands Navy, is also expected to submit their design. In May 2021, Navantia's Australian subsidiary announced plans to expand its manufacturing capability in Western Australia, and if successful in winning the contract for the RAN's JSS, market this vessel to overseas customers. Royal New Zealand Navy It was reported in May 2021 that the Royal New Zealand Navy is a potential customer for further units of joint supply ships to be constructed in Australia. Cancelled vessels German Navy In the mid-1990s, after the end of the Cold War and the resultant change in the both the European and global security situation, as well as the reunification with East Germany, Germany's armed forces underwent strategic transformation. Prior to this, the focus of the Bundeswehr was on national defence, but with conflicts in the Balkans, the Gulf War and Somalia which saw multi-national responses, the focus of country's armed forces shifted towards fulfilling Germany's obligations as a member of the international community. There was also an emphasis by NATO of preemptive intervention in "hotspots" around the globe, which required an increase in air and sea uplift capacity so as to deploy reaction forces. Specifically, the German navy was to have the capability to transport a small peacekeeping contingent with the vessel(s) also serving in the role of mission command and coordination. Furthermore, Somalia highlighted the need to provide humanitarian relief. The German Navy (Deutsche Marine), the smallest branch of the country's armed forces, was ill-equipped for these new requirements, and commenced plans to commission a suitable vessel. This resulted in the Taktische Konzept Mehrzweckschiff project - the "Tactical Concept Multipurpose ship", and in late 1994 MTG Marinetechnik GmbH, the company established by the West German government in 1966 to design warships, responded with a conceptual design for a combined