Amphibious Assault Ships contain a well deck to support use of Landing Craft, Air Cushioned (LCAC) and other watercraft (with exception of the first two LHA(R) class ships, LHA 6 and LHA 7 ...

Your front-page article (December 28) on China’s future amphibious assault ships missed the mark on ... in Wikipedia’s report on USS America (LHA-6) illustrates all too clearly.

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 ...

The Navy’s America-Class landing helicopter assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships were designed to replace the earlier Tarawa class and based on the last ship of the Wasp-class- USS Makin ...

In its annual survey of 219 member companies, the Amphibious Warfare Industrial Base Coalition (AWIBC) said that a majority ...

The People’s... The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is taking new steps to prepare its new class of Type 075 amphibious assault ships for networked, multi-domain combat landings that ...

The ship has a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons, slightly lighter than the newest American amphibious assault ship, the 44,000-ton America class ... the YULAN LHA (Type 076 ...

NATO classifies it as a Yulan-class landing helicopter assault craft, similar to Western amphibious assault ships, which are different from aircraft carriers. The lead ship in the class was ...

The launch of the first Type 076-class amphibious assault ship was a normal arrangement in the hardware development agenda of the People's Liberation Army Navy and was not intended to threaten any ...

China unveiled its newest amphibious assault ship in ... The Sichuan, the first Yulan-class landing helicopter assault (LHA) ship, has a massive flight deck as large as three football fields.