amphibious warfare vessel

In 1804/1805 Sir William Sidney Smith designed two catamaran landing craft From Tom Pocock's 'The Terror Before Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoleon and the secret war' But while infantry could scramble ashore from ships’ boats, they could do so only in small parties; also the landing of artillery was...

The Italian Navy is currently performing its main excercise the "Mare Aperto 25" (Open Sea 25), in this occasion the Italian Navy is displaying the full landing attack capability with the joint deployment of the LPD Trieste and the all "Santi Class" LPD ships (San Giorgio, San Marco and San Giusto).

Admin suggestion: if there is an appropriate existing thread, please combine. The RAN has had a very spotty track record after 1945 with regards to actually landing forces on any of the islands in its neighborhood outside of existing port facilities. This first post is to establish what...

Today, Fincantieri has officially handed over, at Muggiano shipyard, the amphibious vessel LPD “Al Fulk” to the Ministry of Defence of Qatar as the completion of a significant naval program for the Qatari Navy. This unit, equipped with a large flight deck that can host NH90 helicopters, a...

Can the Soviets develop or modify an existing design into an amphibious assault vessel ? I think Moskva class aviation cruisers will be a great choice Can anyone suggest what changes will be needed to modify them ? And if a new vessel what do you think such a vessel will look like given...

In 1987 the Royal Netherlands Navy began studying an 8,000 ton LST for the 1993-97 construction programme which would have the capacity to carry 600 Marines. This pre-dates the LSD effort which began in 1990 which resulted in the Rotterdam-class. These have a capacity for 600 troops but offer...

The construction of the 2 Universal Landing Craft ( Helicopter carriers) was officially started at a ceremony today. I haven't been following closely, and do not speak Russian, but indications out there suggest a design in the 20 000 to 25 000 ton range.

In 2009, Germany was a plan to build the fleet of 2025 (Flotte 2025 +), according to which envisages the construction of 2-UDC Joint Support Ship (JSS) and 2-multi-purpose ships, docks Mehrzweckeinsatzschiffs (MZES) — the last to play the role of amphibious transports, mother ships and supply...

"MAST Asia 2017: Mitsui Unveils New LPD Amphibious Transport Dock Concept" Published: Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:12 Source...

Finally a model of China's new LHD project, the Type 075. Said to displace 36,000 tonnes and operate 28 helicopters, under construction at Shanghai' Hudong-Zhonghua shipyards since late 2016.

Huntington Ingalls LPD Flight II http://youtu.be/yI5GFP_b7kQ Source: http://visual.ly/lpd-flight-ii

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Ship_Medium_Mk_II there is an article on an abortive Australian landing ship project. It says nothing however about the dimensions etc. of the ship as well as it contains no images. Does anyone here know more on this project? Any info, esp. regarding the...

Found a couple of notes on Invincible class from my Aviation & Marine International magazine collection September 1979: April 1976:

As is well known the Royal Navy built up a decent force of new and converted amphibious ships in the 1960s based on the converted carriers Bulwark and Albion, the two Fearless class LPDs and the Sir Lancelot class LSTs. Mention, however, is made in some sources of proposals to build additional...

View of ECOSHIPS a french study for ecological warships

Transformable Heavy Lift Ship by Andrew Boxom et al., NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER CARDEROCK DIV BETHESDA MD, Aug 2007 Abstract: Handle / proxy Url: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA487944

Intra-Theater Auxiliary Lift Ship by Oliver Sander and Parin Shah, NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER CARDEROCK DIV BETHESDA MD SHIP SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT (Dec 2007) Abstract: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA495567

Bare Hull Resistance Experiments and LDV Wake Surveys for a Trimaran Concept of a Heavy Air Lift Seabasing Ship (HALSS) Represented by Model 5651 by Daniel J Lyons and Christopher J Chesnakas, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Divison Bethesda MD (Sep 2007) Abstract...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg To translate a comment from the original poster, ENRR, these drawings were "from the UK alternative to Argus." Indeed, they do seem to depict a ship based on a commercial Ro-Ro...

PH 75/PA 75 was a military development program in France aimed at designing a nuclear-powered amphibious assault ship during the 1970s for the French Navy (Marine Nationale). Two ships were planned. Design work was never completed by the time the project was canceled. Source: ALL THE WORLD’S...