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Taiwan ’s first landing platform dock is expected to enter service next month, a warship to boost defences against potential PLA attacks on its offshore islets – including in the South China Sea.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) a potential $1.47B contract to build the first landing platform dock under the LPD-17 Flight II program.. HII said Tuesday its ...
Description . One of a two-ship class assault ships commissioned in 1967. Incorporating a large docking well aft, which could accommodate up to four medium landing craft, while four 30 troop light ...
March 27 (UPI) --Huntington Ingalls Industries will design and build the first LPD Flight II amphibious transport dock ship for the U.S. Navy under a $1.47 billion contract, the Pentagon announced ...
The Liberty Times, quoting unnamed Taiwanese naval officials, reported that bids were solicited on April 12 for local shipbuilders to construct the first landing platform dock, or LPD, for the ...
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems has been awarded a $74.7 million contract for design and engineering work on the U.S. Navy's LPD-17 class of landing platform dock ships, such as the USS San ...
This rate of warship construction is itself impressive. It is only 12 years since China commissioned the Type-071 class. That was the first of at least seven landing platform-docks (LPDs) which ...
A Taiwan-made Yushan landing platform dock (LPD) is scheduled to be delivered to the navy as early as September if its soon-to-be-launched sea trial proves to be a success, a military source said ...
The Navy amphib fleet includes 13 Flight I landing platform docks. The Flight II LPDs are somewhat cheaper to procure than the previous Flight I versions, but it comes with a tradeoff, the CRS ...