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 ...

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 ...

Those modifications turned a ship built to support offshore oil facilities into a landing ship that can pull up onto a beach or drop its ramp on a rocky coast or quay wall and offload or embark ...

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.

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 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 ...