Landing/Attack Craft: 4 LCUs or 2 LCUs and 1 LCAC. Amphibious Assault Ships are the U.S. Navy’s largest of all amphibious warfare ships. They resemble a small aircraft carrier and are capable of ...

Amphibious assault ships are meant to be used with ground troops in amphibious combat. They do this by loading, moving, and landing members of Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) onto a hostile shore.

Outfitted for her primary mission, USS Kearsarge will carry a mix of assault helicopters, plus six to eight Harrier jets. The ship will be fully capable of maintaining its aircraft and landing ...

The new United States Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) is now operational and preparing to deploy from U.S. Navy big-deck amphibious warships from miles off-shore into hostile ...

America’s Wasp-class big-deck amphibious ships might have entered service in the 1990’s, but their landing craft are relics from the early sixties. Each of America’s Wasp-class assault ...

The Navy's new amphibious transport dock ship will honor a fallen Marine, while two surveillance ships pay tribute to deep ...

This class of dock landing ships can deliver landing craft and other amphibious assault vehicles, as well as Marines. These ships were originally built in New Orleans by Avondale Shipyard ...

China stays committed to the path of peaceful development and a defense policy that is defensive in nature. The launching of the Type 076 amphibious assault ship is a normal arrangement in the ...

Albion and Bulwark are the Navy's only amphibious assault ships ... Permanently scrapping the landing ships means we remove that capability entirely. So what impact will this have on the ...

China's largest assault ship, CNS Sichuan ... helicopters and amphibious landing craft. The Navy said that in the next phase, engineers will start outfitting and fine-tuning the vessel's equipment ...