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Austal USA is an American shipbuilder based on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama. It is a subsidiary of the Australian shipbuilder Austal , operating under a Special Security Arrangement which allows it to work independently and separately on some of the most sensitive United States defense programs despite its foreign ownership.
LCS-2 was the first ship built by Austal USA for the US Navy and the Navy's first trimaran Littoral Combat Ship. It is the first naval warship constructed in Mobile, Alabama since World War II. The basis of Austal's seaframe design was the 127-metre (417 ft) trimaran hull HSC Benchijigua Express.
Charleston was commissioned on 2 March 2019 [5] and she has been assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron One [10] at her homeport of San Diego. On 27 April 2021, an unmanned helicopter, a MQ-8 Fire Scout , took off from the ship at about 3:40 a.m. [ 11 ] The aircraft, which is 31.7 feet long and roughly 10 feet tall, then crashed into the ...
USS Mobile (LCS-26) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] Named for the city of Mobile, Alabama , she is the fifth ship to carry the name. [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
On 29 December 2010, the Navy announced that it was awarding Austal USA a contract to build ten additional Independence-class littoral combat ships. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Kingsville is designed to travel upwards of 45mph, making it one of the fastest vessels in the navy.
The Heritage-class cutter, also known as the Offshore Patrol Cutter and the Maritime Security Cutter, Medium, is a cutter class of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), developed as part of the Integrated Deepwater System Program and built by Eastern Shipbuilding [4] and Austal USA. [5] Construction of the first vessel in the class began in ...
Hull number: LCS-22; Motto: United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Status: Active: Badge: General characteristics; Class and type: Independence-class littoral combat ship: Displacement: 2,307 metric tons light, 3,104 metric tons full, 797 metric tons deadweight: Length: 127.4 m (418 ft) Beam: 31.6 m (104 ft) Draft: 14 ft (4.27 m) Propulsion
Austal USA (Module Manufacturing Facility) United States: Mobile, Alabama: 68,250 m 2 (734,600 sq ft) 1.365 million m 3 (48.204 million cu ft) The facility is capable of constructing six large aluminium vessels such as the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and/or Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) per year. [18] Bielefeld University (main building)