American Naval Amphibious Assault Ships, Wasp and Tarawa Class, Command Ships, Transport Docks, and Coastal Mine Hunters - Comprehensive Coverage and Photo Galleries (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM has comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Navy s fleet of amphibious assault ships, amphibious command ships, transport docks, and coastal mine hunters, with assault ship photo galleries. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection contains more than 13,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIPS (LHA/LHD), COASTAL MINE HUNTERS, AMPHIBIOUS TRANSPORT DOCK (LPD), AMPHIBIOUS COMMAND SHIPS (LCC) - Modern U.S. Navy Amphibious Assault Ships project power and maintain presence by serving as the cornerstone of the Amphibious Readiness Group (ARG) / Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG). The largest of all amphibious warfare ships; resembles a small aircraft carrier; capable of Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing (V/STOL), Short Take Off Vertical Landing (STOVL), Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) tiltrotor and Rotary Wing (RW) aircraft operations; contains a welldeck to support use of Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) and other watercraft. A key element of the Seapower 21 pillars of Sea Strike and Sea Basing, these ships transport and land elements of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) with a combination of aircraft and landing craft. The Tarawa-class LHA provides the Marine Corps with a superb means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by landing craft. Three LHAs-which have extensive storage capacity and can accommodate both LCUs and LCACs-were unusually active during Operations Desert Shield/Storm. Since that time, LHAs (and, later, LHDs) have been participants in major humanitarian-assistance, occupation, and combat operations in which the United States has been involved. Amphibious transports are warships that embark, transport, and land elements of a landing force for a variety of expeditionary warfare missions. The amphibious transports are used to transport, and land Marines, their equipment and supplies by embarked air cushion or conventional landing craft or amphibio