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Three US amphibious warfare ships in 2011 - the Landing Helicopter Dock USS Makin Island (LHD 8) leading the Landing Platform Dock USS New Orleans (LPD 18), rear, and the Landing Ship Dock USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), fore. This is a list of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships.
USS San Antonio (LPD-17), the lead ship of her class of amphibious transport dock or landing platform dock, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of San Antonio, Texas. Construction
The San Antonio class is a class of amphibious transport docks, also called a "landing platform, dock" (LPD), used by the United States Navy.These warships replace the Austin-class LPDs (including Cleveland and Trenton sub-classes), as well as the Newport-class tank landing ships, the Anchorage-class dock landing ships, and the Charleston-class amphibious cargo ships that have already been ...
The America class (formerly the LHA(R) class) is a ship class of landing helicopter assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships for the United States Navy (USN). The class is designed to put ashore a Marine Expeditionary Unit using helicopters and MV-22B Osprey V/STOL transport aircraft, supported by AV-8B Harrier II or F-35 Lightning II V/STOL aircraft and various attack helicopters.
The interior configuration of the United States Navy's San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock shows features common to most LPDs. An amphibious transport dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), [1] is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. [2]
Valued at $5.8 billion, the first contract tasks Huntington Ingalls with designing and building three "Flight II" amphibious transport dock ships for the Navy, with hull numbers LPD 33, LPD 34 ...
4 amphibious assault ships under the Indian Navy Multi-Role Support Vessel programme; Active: Austin class - LPD INS Jalashwa (formerly USS Trenton) Shardul class - LST (3 in service) INS Shardul (4 January 2007) INS Kesari (5 April 2008) INS Airavat (19 May 2009) Magar class (1 in service) INS Gharial (L23) (14 February 1997) LCU Mk4 (8 in ...
The United States Navy is also designing a new class of assault ships: the first America-class ship entered service in October 2014. [12] The first British ship to be constructed specifically for the amphibious assault role was HMS Ocean, which was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1998.