A scathing and detailed new watchdog report has found the condition of the Navy's amphibious ship fleet -- the fleet Marines ...
Amphibious assault ships perform sea-borne operations such ... the EA-18G Growler for electronic warfare, and the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye for surveillance and airborne command and control (C2).
The Navy’s amphibious fleet is in such a sorry state that half of the ships are declared to be in “poor condition” and not on ...
Amphibious Assault Ships are the U.S. Navy’s largest of all amphibious warfare ships. They resemble a small aircraft carrier and are capable of operating with Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing ...
“Marine Corps documentation indicates that amphibious warfare ships have generally not met the Navy’s planned maintenance schedules dating back to 2010. Specifically, Marine Corps ...
US Congressional sources say the amphibious war ship Bataan is leading a US naval task force in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Bataan has two support ships and together they have about 2,500 ...
As a result, it will be hard to continue meeting the 31-ship requirement.” There are currently 32 amphibious warfare ships in ...
China and the U.S. have steadily been expanding their marine forces and the amphibious capabilities that accompany them in the Western Pacific. The U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self ...
Dismissed as irrelevant after World War II, the cruise ship industry ... America’s Wasp-class big-deck amphibious ships might have entered service in the 1990’s, but their landing craft ...
The outlook of the Navy's amphibious fleet for transporting Marines and their equipment, such as vehicles and aircraft for ...
The Navy and Marine Corps do not agree on how many amphibious ships are needed to deploy Marines effectively, and the number ...