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Wow love that grey LPD looking ship next to the LHD it looks nice very nice much like JMSDF camo anyone have any idea who proposed that design
Large Amphibious Assault Vessels
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That is a great pic.
Kudos to the Aussies for sticking with it and developing these two marvelous LHDs!
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... posted Apr 10, 2015
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Navy's newest amphibious assault ship heads to the fleet
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This is the 10th San Antonio class LPD.Sea Waves said:
the 11th has already been launched and will be christened next week.
The 12th will be a transitional ship. it will still be an LPD, but will begin incorporating some of the changes that are planned to use the same hull to become the LX(R) program which will be used to replace existing Landing Ship Docks.
The second America Class LHA, the USS Tripoli, LHA-7, is coming along nicely.
Here is the Island (700 ton) being lifted onto the main deck.
Here is a video of the same:
an a video of an earlier lift on the Tripoli. She is really coming aling.
She will be launching within the year. she is the second aircraft centric LHA, built specifically to give the US Marines their own organic and strng air support and air dominance vessel without having to have a CVN nearby.
They are building two so that one is always available if needed...though I imagine they will be based on opposite coasts.
LHA-8 and the other LHAs after that will revert back to the well deck with less aircraft capability...though at any time any of the LHDs or LHAs can be made over into Sea Control vessels if necessary.
Here is the Island (700 ton) being lifted onto the main deck.
Here is a video of the same:
an a video of an earlier lift on the Tripoli. She is really coming aling.
She will be launching within the year. she is the second aircraft centric LHA, built specifically to give the US Marines their own organic and strng air support and air dominance vessel without having to have a CVN nearby.
They are building two so that one is always available if needed...though I imagine they will be based on opposite coasts.
LHA-8 and the other LHAs after that will revert back to the well deck with less aircraft capability...though at any time any of the LHDs or LHAs can be made over into Sea Control vessels if necessary.
Pacific Sentinel said:
This will be an excellent design. it will keep Huntington Ingalls building large Amphibs, and it will help reduce costs because of economies of scale using the same hull.
There are 8 Whidbey Island and 4 Harper's Ferry LSDs to replace, so Huntington will build another 12 of these vessels.
Good looking ship. Will not be quite as air centric as the San Antonio, and probably will allow for at least two LCACs, although all the Whidbey Islands allow for four, which in turn reduces the vehicle space internal.
I expect they will stick with the Harper's Ferry capability where they reduced it to two.
Hi guys.. I thought I'd post these photos here. I don't have the hi-res links because I found these photos on dvids and it is too time consuming for me to get a Hi-res link.
Anyway the photos below show F-35Bs operating from USS America (LHA 6) which in reality is a "pocket" aircraft carrier for the US Marines.
I think USS America (LHA 6) should be deployed to Sasebo Japan instead of USS Wasp(LHD 1). Why? because America is configured to operate 20 F-35Bs plus Ospreys. Also to replace the well deck of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) which is transfering to San Diego I'd send an extra San Antonio class LPD. Just my opinion.
Anyway the photos below show F-35Bs operating from USS America (LHA 6) which in reality is a "pocket" aircraft carrier for the US Marines.
I think USS America (LHA 6) should be deployed to Sasebo Japan instead of USS Wasp(LHD 1). Why? because America is configured to operate 20 F-35Bs plus Ospreys. Also to replace the well deck of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) which is transfering to San Diego I'd send an extra San Antonio class LPD. Just my opinion.
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