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While there is one thing to make surface combat ship as stealthy as possible, the need is even greater to make Amphibious transport ship.
Every country have their own transport ship, most are brought as is from other Navy or Merchant Marine or even Steam liner to act as troop transport. Troop transport are big, slow and most likely to present as a big target to enemy Navy and Air Force. During WW2, numerous Allied and Axis was sunk either by intention or by accident. The most iconic were the RMS Laconia, RMS Lancastria, USS H.R. Malloy. Almost all of them result in great human losses as each troop ship hull lost.
However, the concept of a stealth Troop ship was not borne even until 2010s, and all navy still using conventional and ex-curise liner as troop transport. However, in 2011, when the USNS Spearhead (JHSV) enter Service in United State Navy, the concept has changed.
Concept of a Joint High Speed Vessel was born in the use of US Army and US Marine as a dual service Naval Transport, Shaped like a littoral combat ship and like a turbo cat, the ships is of 1,500 ton class, act as a medium troop transport, that means this ship can transport up to a battalion sized (350 men) unit from ashore.
The ship itself does not have any armament, however, US Navy would evaluate the situation and would arms the ship for combat use (Most Likely Combat Amphibious Assault transport) The ship did have a good 20,000 sq ft cargo space and a helicopter landing pad that can support up to 1 MV-22.
This ship can do a good 43 knots, faster than most of the combat ship currently running. And it share the same information interfaces with the LCS that was also being made in Austral shipyard. The communication system is of state of the art which give the ship better situational awareness than any other opponent.
The US Navy is planning to make 26 of those and currently have plan on 10 other than the 2 already made and in service with the US Navy. With all 26 in service, the fleet are then capable to life up to a whole division with equipment.
The ship is debuted with the New US Navy technology alongside with Railgun and Shipborne laser, althought it was overshadowed by the aforementioned technology, no doubt this is indeed the future of any Navy.
Every country have their own transport ship, most are brought as is from other Navy or Merchant Marine or even Steam liner to act as troop transport. Troop transport are big, slow and most likely to present as a big target to enemy Navy and Air Force. During WW2, numerous Allied and Axis was sunk either by intention or by accident. The most iconic were the RMS Laconia, RMS Lancastria, USS H.R. Malloy. Almost all of them result in great human losses as each troop ship hull lost.
However, the concept of a stealth Troop ship was not borne even until 2010s, and all navy still using conventional and ex-curise liner as troop transport. However, in 2011, when the USNS Spearhead (JHSV) enter Service in United State Navy, the concept has changed.
![800px-USNS_Spearhead_%28JHSV-1%29_-_6.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F4%2F4c%2FUSNS_Spearhead_%2528JHSV-1%2529_-_6.jpg%2F800px-USNS_Spearhead_%2528JHSV-1%2529_-_6.jpg&hash=112387f1225cf0f692f4ba7e72781885)
Concept of a Joint High Speed Vessel was born in the use of US Army and US Marine as a dual service Naval Transport, Shaped like a littoral combat ship and like a turbo cat, the ships is of 1,500 ton class, act as a medium troop transport, that means this ship can transport up to a battalion sized (350 men) unit from ashore.
![USNS_Spearhead_%28JHSV-1%29_-_1.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F42%2FUSNS_Spearhead_%2528JHSV-1%2529_-_1.jpg&hash=04a924251da073983871ab47eebf309a)
The ship itself does not have any armament, however, US Navy would evaluate the situation and would arms the ship for combat use (Most Likely Combat Amphibious Assault transport) The ship did have a good 20,000 sq ft cargo space and a helicopter landing pad that can support up to 1 MV-22.
![800px-USNS_Spearhead_with_helicopter_during_sea_trials.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fc%2Fc0%2FUSNS_Spearhead_with_helicopter_during_sea_trials.jpg%2F800px-USNS_Spearhead_with_helicopter_during_sea_trials.jpg&hash=11f78097e3341d67359b69d1bd7e97b5)
This ship can do a good 43 knots, faster than most of the combat ship currently running. And it share the same information interfaces with the LCS that was also being made in Austral shipyard. The communication system is of state of the art which give the ship better situational awareness than any other opponent.
The US Navy is planning to make 26 of those and currently have plan on 10 other than the 2 already made and in service with the US Navy. With all 26 in service, the fleet are then capable to life up to a whole division with equipment.
The ship is debuted with the New US Navy technology alongside with Railgun and Shipborne laser, althought it was overshadowed by the aforementioned technology, no doubt this is indeed the future of any Navy.