US Navy commissions new amphibious assault ship, USS America (LHA-6)

[AMDR]

Navy's newest amphibious assault ship ready for duty - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy's newest amphibious assault ship, the USS America, is being commissioned into service Saturday in San Francisco, Calif.
The ship is equipped with a fuel-efficient hybrid electric propulsion system and additional aviation spaces, including an enlarged hangar deck, realigned and expanded aviation maintenance facilities and increased space for aircraft parts, support equipment and aviation fuel.

"The USS America provides a flexible, multi-mission platform with capabilities that span the range of military operations -- from forward deployed crisis response to forcible entry operations, the Navy said. "The ship also provides forward presence and power projection as an integral part of joint, inter-agency and multinational maritime expeditionary forces."

The ship was built by Huntington Ingalls Industries. It's 844 feet long, 106 feet in the beam and has a speed of more than 22 knots.

It is used to carry U.S. Marine Corps troops and equipment, including aircraft.

The America-class of LHA is a "big deck" ship and will not only be able to support helicopters, but also tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey aircraft and F-35B Lightning

 

[BDforever]

Navy's newest amphibious assault ship ready for duty - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy's newest amphibious assault ship, the USS America, is being commissioned into service Saturday in San Francisco, Calif.
The ship is equipped with a fuel-efficient hybrid electric propulsion system and additional aviation spaces, including an enlarged hangar deck, realigned and expanded aviation maintenance facilities and increased space for aircraft parts, support equipment and aviation fuel.

"The USS America provides a flexible, multi-mission platform with capabilities that span the range of military operations -- from forward deployed crisis response to forcible entry operations, the Navy said. "The ship also provides forward presence and power projection as an integral part of joint, inter-agency and multinational maritime expeditionary forces."

The ship was built by Huntington Ingalls Industries. It's 844 feet long, 106 feet in the beam and has a speed of more than 22 knots.

It is used to carry U.S. Marine Corps troops and equipment, including aircraft.

The America-class of LHA is a "big deck" ship and will not only be able to support helicopters, but also tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey aircraft and F-35B Lightning

it is light aircraft carrier !! !

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

USS America (LHA-6) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
45,000 tons, Built for F35B and MV22 Ospreys.

 

[Sardar Singh]

Look at the gigantic size of this moster

 

[rockstar08]

Beauty

 

[Sardar Singh]

Class & type: America-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement: 44,971 long tons (45,693 t) Full load
Length: 844 feet (257.3 meters)
Beam: 106 feet (32.3 meters)
Draft: 26 feet (7.9 meters)
Propulsion: Two marine gas turbines, two shafts, 70,000 total brake horsepower, two 5,000 horsepower auxiliary propulsion motors.
Speed: 22+ knots (41+ km/h)
Complement:
65 officers, 994 enlisted
1,687 Marines (plus 184 surge)
Sensors and
processing systems: AN/SPQ-9B fire control
AN/SPS-48E Air-search radar

Electronic warfare
& decoys:
AN/SLQ-32B(V)2
2×Mk53 NULKA decoy launchers
Armament:
2× Rolling Airframe Missile launchers
2× Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile launchers
2× 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts
7× twin .50 BMG machine guns
Aircraft carried: MV-22B Osprey
F-35B Lightning II
CH-53K Super Stallion
UH-1Y Venom
AH-1Z Viper
MH-60S Knighthawk


Source:Wikipedia

 

[Nexus]

what a beast Yaar

 

[mike2000]

Just to all those 'rivals' who still think they can ever match the U.S. Well not in 40 years.

Look at the gigantic size of this moster

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A beast indeed....

 

[Pak_Sher]

Thanks for sharing. Great addition for the USN.

 

[GR!FF!N]

best part,they're planning 11 of them..Holy Fkuc..

 

[Genesis]

Just to all those 'rivals' who still think they can ever match the U.S. Well not in 40 years.



A beast indeed....

lol, that has decreased from never, to 40 years, good enough for me.

 

[Danish saleem]

from which angel this is amphibious ship?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

best part,they're planning 11 of them..Holy Fkuc..

Well we already have 8 Wasp Class that are only slightly smaller Wasp-class amphibious assault ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BTW they are longer and heavier than our biggest WW2 carriers. LOL! Essex-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Congrats americans, can USA sell/give TOT to India along with F-35

You probably can buy some old ones dirt cheap (there's 7 of them around somewhere). Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[mike2000]

lol, that has decreased from never, to 40 years, good enough for me.

I'm being Over ambitious bro. As far as i know China is still strugling to build an aircraft carrier. Something we in the west(and even Japan) had done/been doing for decades.

 

[GR!FF!N]

@Peter C

actually,India is not going to buy LPH soon.we're looking for and soon going to acquire 4 LPDs(the specification shows a lil bit larger than Mistral,and probably some version of Mistral we're going to get.its the most advanced out there,after San Antonio).but we truly envy you guys.it is in fact an established fact that on Naval Power,USN is powerful than next 15 most powerful navies combined.

But one thing I don't understand,why F-35 is getting integrated on a landing platform??probably to give air support to the marines and to protect this asset,but then doesn't USN use carriers for that role too??or is it designed to act as standalone platform??

I'm being Over ambitious bro. As far as i know China is still strugling to build an aircraft carrier. Something we in the west(and even Japan) had done/been doing for decades.

one correction,West/Japan is soon going to celebrate a "Century of making First Aircraft Carrier"..

British commissioned HMS Argus in 1918.
USN commissioned Lexington in 1927
Japan buil Hosho,world's first Purpose Built Aircraft Carrier in 1922.