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

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.

Marines plan to test a new ship this spring that they see as the answer to fighting in littorals with new formations. The landing ship medium, formerly known as the light amphibious warship, is ...

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

The Congressional Budget Office expects the Landing Ship Medium program to cost billions of dollars more than the U.S. Navy previously estimated, though the organization noted that ongoing ...

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.

Five companies are building competitive prototypes, and the Marines will select one to fulfill the Landing Ship Medium program within the next two years.

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.