Amphibious Assault ... 6 (AMERICA) was christened on Oct. 20, 2012. The Navy awarded a contract for detail design and construction for LHA 7 (TRIPOLI) to HII on May 31, 2012. Ships in class ...

In its annual survey of 219 member companies, the Amphibious Warfare Industrial Base Coalition (AWIBC) said that a majority ...

China's People's Liberation Army Navy has unveiled its latest vessel, Type 076, revealing a truly unusual design ... the U.S. Navy's America-class amphibious assault ships, at least in dimension ...

The vessel features a twin island design similar to the British Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft ... alongside nine amphibious assault ships of the Wasp and America classes, with 11 planned to ...

China unveiled the new amphibious assault ship it has been ... than Japan's Izumo-class helicopter carriers. While the Sichuan is about as long as the US Navy's America-class LHAs with a similar ...

The People’s Liberation Army started tendering for the design and construction ... it is longer than the America Class, the US Navy’s largest amphibious assault ship, and the Izumo, a Japanese ...

(CNN) — China has launched its first next-generation amphibious assault ship, adding a powerful cutting-edge warship to the country’s fast-expanding navy as it races to rival the military ...