The following is the Feb. 27, 2025, Government Accountability Office, report, Shipbuilding and Repair: Navy Needs a Strategic ...

The landing platform dock, believed to be the largest naval vessel that China has exported, will see the Chinese-built vessel ...

On Dec. 17, an Avondale-led coalition was awarded a contract worth $641 million to design, construct and support the U.S. Navy's initial LPD-17 ship, with an option covering two additional ships ...

SASEBO, Japan – The America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed their first patrol of 2025, March 6.

The most debased example of using warship names to attract political favor, and defense dollars, was the 2010 U.S. Navy decision to name an amphibious ship, LPD 26 after a recently deceased member of ...

The Lafayette Police Department is asking for the public’s help locating a 12-year-old boy. According to LPD, Kamari Hurt was ...

The U.S. Navy holds commanding officers to the highest ... officer of the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17). Following the collision of Feb. 13, the U.S. Naval Forces Europe ...

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NAVAL OPERATING BASE SUBIC, PHILIPPINES — Boarding a vessel as large as BRP Tarlac (LD-601) would have been inconceivable to many in the Philippine Navy a decade or two ago. The 7,200-ton landing ...

The 071s are Landing Ship Dock or LPD type vessels and were the largest ships in the Chinese Navy until the first aircraft carrier entered service in 2013. But while Chinese aircraft carriers are ...