NATO classifies it as a Yulan-class landing helicopter assault craft ... Some have theorized that the ship could launch fighters, and it might use future fighter jets capable of vertical takeoff ...

The U.S. Navy's newest Wasp Class multipurpose amphibious assault ship was commissioned USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during ceremonies October 16, 1993 at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in ...

Amphibious Assault Ships are the U.S. Navy’s largest of all ... and built for Makin Island will also be used aboard the future USS America (LHA 6), the first ship in the LHA.

“Be in no doubt the future for our Royal Marines and their elite force will be reinforced in the SDR [Strategic Defense Review].” Albion and Bulwark are the Navy's only amphibious assault ...

and former defence committee chairman Sir Julian Lewis warned the absence of the assault ships could encourage an enemy “to try something like the Falklands in the future”. Shadow defence ...

Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation will build two or three more Ivan Gren-class large amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy MOSCOW, December 3. /TASS/. Russia’s United ...

MOSCOW, June 24. /TASS/. Russia’s new amphibious assault ships laid down at the Yantar Shipyard on the Baltic coast in April will differ considerably from their Project 11711 Ivan Gren-class ...