US Marine Corps Photo After making a series of modifications to an offshore support vessel, the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab is ready to start experimenting with a prototype for a landing ship the ...

The Marine Corps modified a Hornbeck Offshore Services' offshore support vessel to create a Landing Ship Medium prototype for experimentation. (Marine Corps image) NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.

Today's US Navy may be poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago. A unique and little-known ship packed a formidable punch in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

The Marine Corps will put its Landing Ship Medium prototype through a rigorous technical assessment before handing it over to 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment. (Hornbeck Offshore Services) ARLINGTON, Va.

An early prototype project used a leased offshore support vessel from Hornbeck Offshore Services. Designers modified the ship to operate as a stern landing vessel by adding a large ramp ...

As robust, simple craft, these modified offshore support vessels may prove perfect ... a rusted-out World War II-era LST, or Landing Ship Tank, was deliberately grounded on the resource-rich ...

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Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has repeatedly said the service will need at least 35 medium landing ships to support its new Marine Littoral Regiments, but the Navy has pushed back ...

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