Thursday, November 20, 2014

America Class LHA

America Class LHA (General-Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship) – 1 unit


LHA-6 – America – Commissioned: 2014 – №: 1 – Homeport: San Diego
LHA-7 – Tripoli – Commissioned:


Displacement: 45,693 tons full load
Length: 257 m
Beam: 32 m
Propulsion: 2 gas turbines, 2 shafts, with 70,000 total brake horsepower, and 2 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) auxiliary propulsion engines
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement: 65 officers, 994 enlisted men, 1,687 Marines


Sensors and processing systems:
AN/SPQ-9B fire control radar;
AN/SPS-48E air search radar;
Electronic warfare & decoys:
AN/SLQ-32B(V)2;
2 Mark-53 Nulka decoy launchers


Armament:
2 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers;
2 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile launchers;
2 Phalanx CIWS;
7 dual Browning .50 caliber machine guns


Aircraft carried:
AV-8B Harrier II;
F-35B Lightning II;
MV-22B Osprey;
CH-53E Super Stallion or CH-53K King Stallion;
UH-1Y Venom;
AH-1Z Viper;
MH-60S Knight Hawk

Aviation facilities: hangar deck

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