U.S.S. America
LHA-6
2020
(Albatros ALK-700)
- Class: America - 2+9 amphibious assault ships of 2006-
- Displacement: 45,000 tons
- Dimensions: 844' x 106' x 26'
- Machinery: 2 gas turbines; 70,000 bhp; 2 shafts = 22+ knots
- Missiles: 2 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) launchers; 2 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) launchers
- Guns: 2-20mm Phalanx CIWS; 2-25mm Bushmaster; 7-.50cal MG
- Aircraft: mix of F-35B Lightning II, MV-22B Osprey, CH-53K King Stalion, UH-1Y Venom, AH-1Z Viper, and MH-60S Knighthawk
- Complement: 1,204
- Troops: 1,600+
- Builder: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi
- Keel Laid: 17 Jul 2009
- Launched: 4 Jun 2012
- Commissioned: 11 Oct 2014
- Notes: America and sister Tripoli (LHA-7) are "Flight 0" designs without the well decks and landing craft of previous LHA/LHD designs. However the next "Flight 1" ship Bougainville (LHA-8) and subsequent members of the class are being built with well decks.
- F-35B Lightning II
- MV-22 Osprey
- AH-1Z Super Cobra
- CH-53E Sea Stallion
- MH-60S Seahawk
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