amphibious assault craft

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• Amphibious assault ship — Six of the U.S. Navy s assault ships in formation; lead ship and the ship seen to its left are Tarawa class, all others are Wasp class An amphibious assault ship (also referred to as a commando carrier or an amphibious assault carrier) is a type… …   Wikipedia

• assault craft — A landing craft or amphibious vehicle primarily employed for landing troops and equipment in the assault waves of an amphibious operation …   Military dictionary

• amphibious assault ship (general purpose) — A naval ship designed to embark, deploy, and land elements of a landing force in an assault by helicopters, landing craft, amphibious vehicles, and by combinations of these methods. Designated as “LHA” or with internal dock as “LHD.” …   Military dictionary

• assault craft unit — A permanently commissioned naval organization, subordinate to the commander, naval beach group, that contains landing craft and crews necessary to provide lighterage required in an amphibious operation. Also called ACU …   Military dictionary

• Mistral class amphibious assault ship — The Mistral in Toulon harbour Class overview Name: Mistral Builders: STX Europe …   Wikipedia

• Dokdo class amphibious assault ship — ROKS Dokdo (LPH 6111) moored at Busan in August 2009. Class overview Name: Dokdo Class LPH Builders …   Wikipedia

• Wasp class amphibious assault ship — The Wasp class amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy are designed to land forces on hostile shores, and they are the largest vessels of this type in service anywhere in the world. They are named after former aircraft carriers, US… …   Wikipedia

• America class amphibious assault ship — The America class amphibious assault ships are planned to replace the Tarawa class. Based on the USS|Makin Island|LHD 8, the LHA 6 will be a gas turbine powered ship supporting a Marine Expeditionary Brigade with launch capacity for V 22 Osprey… …   Wikipedia

• Amphibious warfare — is the utilization of naval firepower, logistics and strategy to project military power ashore. In previous eras it stood as the primary method of delivering troops to non contiguous enemy held terrain. In this modern era amphibious warfare… …   Wikipedia

• Amphibious warfare ship — Infobox Aviation name = Amphibious warfare ship caption = Essex Amphibious Ready Group in the Pacific Ocean. Pictured left to right, the USS Germantown (LSD 42), USS Essex (LHD 2), USS Juneau (LPD 10), and the USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43).… …   Wikipedia

• Amphibious vehicle — An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian), is a vehicle or craft, that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on water just like an amphibian.This definition applies equally to any land and water transport, small or large, powered… …   Wikipedia