The Navy wants to buy 19 ships in fiscal year 2026, but delays, aging shipyards, and new threats may upset those plans.

The development of a new landing ship key to the Marines Corps’ island-hopping strategy in the Western Pacific is on hold due to Navy concerns over cost, USNI News has learned. After receiving ...

The Navy’s Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program, previously called the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) program, envisions procuring a class of 18 to 35 new amphibious ships to support the Marine ...

The Navy and Marines are back on the same page about a low-cost Landing Ship Medium, following negotiations over survivability and capability of the craft.

With 15 active vessels, advanced design features, and the ability to deploy troops, vehicles, and helicopters, the ship ...

Today's US Navy is poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago when it had ships like USS White River.

Commissioned in 1945, White River began life as a Landing Ship Medium (Rocket), or LSMR-501-class ship, and over the course of the White River's 25-year service history, she saw a lot of action ...

LSM (R) (Landing Ship—Medium, Rocket), primarily designed to barrage enemy installations from close in with five-inch rockets fired from ten continually fed launchers. Length: about 200 feet.

Terafulk Megantara Design showcased a new 120-metre Landing Ship Tank (LST) design to meet the Indonesian Navy’s (TNI AL) ...

Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget requests include about USD8.5 billion in total, compared to USD1.8 billion enacted in FY2025, ...