CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — At least three U.S. Navy ships and four Marine Corps Ospreys will join an annual amphibious exercise ...

Manufacturer: Ingalls Shipbuilding Service: USN, USMC Armament ... LHD 8 is the first U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship to employ gas turbines vice steam boilers, and the first Navy surface ...

China may be building a new class of amphibious assault ships modeled upon or at least quite similar to the U.S. Navy’s fast-emerging America-class amphibious assault ship. The U.S. Navy’s ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

The U.S. Navy's newest Wasp Class multipurpose amphibious assault ship was commissioned ... Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, delivered the principal address for ...

On one side of the Pacific, the U.S. Navy’s Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard ... Key point: LHDs will help PLAN’s Marines launch assaults and get air support.

The Chinese naval build up continues with the launch of Sichuan amphibious ... Marines from a landing craft air cushion (LCAC) hovercraft whilst providing dedicated manned air support. This ship ...

U.S. Marines assigned to Reconnaissance Company, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast-rope from a UH-1Y Venom attached to ...

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

In honor of his heroic sacrifice in Iraq, the U.S. Navy is naming a future vessel after 1st Lt. Travis Manion.

After years of delays procuring its own Medium Landing Ship (LSM) to ferry platoon-size elements of Marines between West ...