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AAmphibious assault ships
Amphibious assault ship with aircraft carrying capability
At a glance
America-class amphibious assault shiplarger figure on 2 of 2
Measured figures
Length
Single source844 ft (257 m)[source]
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Single sourceConfiguration
| Specification | America-class amphibious assault ship | Foudre-class landing platform dock |
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| Builders | Huntington Ingalls Industries Ingalls Shipbuilding Division[source] | — |
| Operators | United States Navy[source] | French Navy Chilean Navy Brazilian Navy[source] |
| Preceded by | Wasp class[source] | Bougainville class[source] |
| Cost | US$10.094 billion – initial program cost for 3 ships ($3.4B/unit FY15)[source] | — |
Foudre-class landing platform docklarger figure on 0 of 2
Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.
168.0 m (551 ft 2 in) oa[source]
at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Single source11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)[source]
Two gas turbines , two shafts, with 70,000 bhp (52,000 kW) total; Two 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) auxiliary propulsion engines[source]
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
| Built |
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2008–[source] |
1986–1998[source] |
| In commission | 2014–[source] | — |
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| Planned | 11[source] | — |
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| Building | — |
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| Completed |
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| Active |
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| Type | Amphibious assault ship with aircraft carrying capability[source] | Landing platform dock[source] |
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| Sensors & processing systems | AN/SPS-49 2-D Air Search Radar AN/SPS-48 G 3-D Air Search Radar AN/SPQ-9 B Surface Search Radar AN/USG-2 Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) SSDS MK2[source] | 1 × DRBV-21A air/surface search radar 1 × Decca 2459 surface search radar[source] |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32B(V)2 2 × Mk53 Nulka decoy launchers[source] | 1 × ARBB-36 jammer 1 × SLQ-25 Nixie decoy system[source] |
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| Armament | 2 × Rolling Airframe Missile launchers 2 × Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile launchers 2 × Phalanx CIWS 3 × Mk 38 Machine Gun Systems 7 × dual .50 caliber machine guns[source] | 3 Simbad launcher systems for Mistral SAMs 3 × single 30 mm (1.2 in) Breda-Mauser guns 4 × single 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns[source] |
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| 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 Knighthawk[source] | 4 × Super Puma EC225 or 2 × Aérospatiale SA 321 Super Frelon[source] |
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| Aviation facilities | Hangar deck[source] | 1,450 m 2 (15,600 sq ft) flight deck[source] |
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| Country of origin | United States[source] United States[source] | France[source] |
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| Troop capacity | 1,687 Marines[source]Marines in the sourced complement, separate from Navy officers and enlisted crew | 470[source]Source-stated capacity; all configurations and qualifiers retained |
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| Name | — | Foudre class[source] |
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| Succeeded by | — | Mistral class[source] |
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| Endurance | — | 30 days[source] |
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| Boats & landing craft carried | — | 10 CTMs[source] |
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| Troops | — | 470[source] |
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| Manufacturer | — | DCN Brest[source]Foudre class · Foudre L9011 original construction |
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| Landing craft carried | — | 10 CTMs[source]Source-stated capacity; all configurations and qualifiers retained |
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