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 ...

On May 30th, the Russian Navy launched the amphibious landing vessel RFS Vladimir Andreyev at the Yantar shipyard in the ...

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 ...

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The 684-foot San Antonios can carry landing craft plus a few ... and its own aviation including close air support. The Navy typically keeps one three-ship amphibious group deployed somewhere ...

A stern landing vessel, a modified oil-rig industry off-shore support vessel, raises its ramp in preparation to deliver forces, supplies at the Del Mar Boat Basin, Camp Pendleton, California.

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 ...

The Marine Corps modified a Hornbeck Offshore Services' offshore support vessel to create a Landing Ship Medium prototype for experimentation. (U.S. Marine Corps) The Corps said earlier this year ...

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.

An amphibious ready group, which typically includes one assault ship, one dock landing ship and one transport ... years for “additional maintenance in support of its deployment,” the Navy ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support ... of 13 LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) sailed ...