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USS Harrisburg (LPD-30) will be the 14th San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock ship of the United States Navy. She will be the second ship in naval service named after the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [3][4] Harrisburg is being built at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding. [1] The ship will be the first Flight II ...
2003. USS San Antonio was built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in New Orleans, the 684-foot, 25,000-ton vessel was launched on 12 July 2003, and christened one week later. It had been scheduled to be commissioned on 17 July 2002, but was delayed by poor performance at the Avondale shipyard, which resulted in it being towed from New Orleans to ...
navytimes.com. Navy Times (ISSN 0028-1697) is an American newspaper published 26 times per year serving active, reserve and retired United States Navy personnel and their families, providing news, information, analysis, community lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides. Navy Times also reports on the United States Coast ...
The San Antonio class is a class of amphibious transport docks, also called a "landing platform, dock" (LPD), used by the United States Navy.These warships replace the Austin-class LPDs (including Cleveland and Trenton sub-classes), as well as the Newport-class tank landing ships, the Anchorage-class dock landing ships, and the Charleston-class amphibious cargo ships that have already been ...
New York. (LPD-21) Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget. two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, fore and aft. four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters. USS New York (LPD-21) is a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock, and the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the state of New York. [5][2]
Aircraft carried. Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously. USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) is the 13th and final Flight I San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock of the United States Navy. [4][9] She is named after US Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient Richard ...
In October 2014, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus signed an internal memo recommending that the LX(R) amphibious warfare ship be based on the existing San Antonio-class design. This modified San Antonio-class design was selected over a foreign variant and an entirely new design in order to meet required capability, capacity, and cost parameters ...
Anatolio Benedicto ("A.B.") Cruz III (born June 16, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) [2] is a retired navy admiral and former senior vice president, Enterprise Shared Services, and general counsel of USAA. [3] He was previously the reserve deputy director, maritime operations (N04R) at U.S. Fleet Forces Command. [4]