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Airbus and Navantia will explore the integration of the Sirtap drone on the LHD Juan Carlos I. Both companies have signed an agreement on board the Navy's flagship to study the possible use of the RPAS from its deck.
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Spain Wants To Convert Its Aircraft Carrier For Drone Operations

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 28, 2025

USS Jack H. Lucas
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Cost Of Navy’s Newest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Is Ballooning

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Jan 8, 2025

PLA Navy is expanding its reach warns the DoD.
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Pentagon Warns Of China’s Increasing Capacity To Project Naval Power Far From Home

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 19, 2024

USS Boxer at sea. (U.S. Nav)
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The Navy’s Amphibious Fleet Is In Really Bad Shape

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 4, 2024

A Bayraktar TB3 uncrewed aircraft has successfully landed on and taken off from the Turkish Navy’s ‘drone carrier’ TCG Anadolu.
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TB3 Operates From Turkey’s ‘Drone Carrier’ Amphibious Assault Ship For The First Time

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 19, 2024

An example of an entirely new class of Chinese vessel with a large open flight deck has emerged at a shipyard in the southeastern end of the country.
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New Chinese Mystery Flattop Emerges

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 29, 2024

Recent photos of the first of the Type 076 landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships — known in the West as the Yulan class — under construction at the yard on Changxing Island in Shanghai reveal first one island superstructure added to the deck, followed by another, installed as of late last month.
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China’s Monster Amphibious Assault Ship Has Twin Island Superstructures Optimized For Aviation Ops

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 7, 2024

A pair of apparent mockups of the Chinese GJ-11 Sharp Sword uncrewed combat air vehicle (UCAV) have emerged at a site just over a mile from where the country is building the first of its new monster Type 076 amphibious assault ships.
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Mockups Of China’s Sharp Sword Stealth Drone Appear Near New Supersized Amphibious Warship

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 14, 2024

China's first example of a new class of big deck amphibious assault ship, which may also be able to act as drone-focused light aircraft carrier, is continuing to take shape, and that shape is big.
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China’s Type 076 Is Shaping Up To Be A Monster Amphibious Warship

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 29, 2024

Amphibious assault ship navy planning
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Navy’s New 381-Hull Fleet Plan Recommits To Big Amphibious Warfare Ships

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 20, 2023

Navy named LHA-9 after Fallujah battles
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Navy Names Next Amphibious Ship USS Fallujah

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Dec 14, 2022

Fire Ravaged USS Bonhomme Richard Starts Its Death March To The Scrapper
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Fire Ravaged USS Bonhomme Richard Starts Its Death March To The Scrapper

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Apr 16, 2021

Navy Looking At America And Ford Class Derivatives In New Light Aircraft Carrier Studies
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Navy Looking At America And Ford Class Derivatives In New Light Aircraft Carrier Studies

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 2, 2021

Russia Should Ditch Its Cursed Aircraft Carrier And Focus On Its Two New Amphibious Assault Ships
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Russia Should Ditch Its Cursed Aircraft Carrier And Focus On Its Two New Amphibious Assault Ships

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 14, 2021

Navy Will Spend Around $30 Million To Scrap Fire-Damaged USS Bonhomme Richard
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Navy Will Spend Around $30 Million To Scrap Fire-Damaged USS Bonhomme Richard

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 30, 2020

Amphibious Assault Ship USS Essex Carries Load Of Gorgeous World War II Warbirds To Hawaii
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Amphibious Assault Ship USS Essex Carries Load Of Gorgeous World War II Warbirds To Hawaii

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Aug 12, 2020