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

Meanwhile, the Yantar Shipyard is also progressing on another vessel of the same project, the landing ship Vasily Trushin.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The development of a new landing ship key to the Marines Corps’ island ... are key factors in pursuing littoral maneuver in support of [stand-in forces]. As with all modernization efforts ...

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 ...

Following the strike by Ukrainian drones, geolocated footage posted on Friday shows the vessel listing and a Russian support vessel ... 360 feet long landing ship which launches amphibious forces ...

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 ...