PASCAGOULA, Miss. From the fantail of the 24,000-ton Richard M. McCool, Jr., (LPD-28), one can see the world’s most complex warships coming together, with shipbuilders welding, painting and running cables in the Mississippi sun. Two Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers – Leah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) and the first Flight III Burke Jack Lucas […]
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The following is the Dec 9, 2021, Congressional Research Service report Navy Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report The Navy’s new Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) program envisions procuring a class of 24 to 35 new amphibious ships to support the Marine Corps, particularly in implementing a new Marine […]
The Navy’s new Ship-to-Shore connectors are engineered to carry a seventy-ton M1 Abrams tank from ship to shore, so there is no reason why they could not transport several fifteen-to-twenty ton armed Robotic Combat Vehicles to follow on and support an amphibious landing.