U.S.S. Tarawa
LHA-1
1991
(Argos AS-69)
- Class: Tarawa - 5 amphibious assault ships of 1969-71
- Displacement: 25,120 tons
- Dimensions: 777'8"(wl) 833'9" (oa) x 106' x 26'
- Machinery: 2 steam turbines; 70,000 shp; 2 shafts = 24 knots
- Missiles: 2 8-cell Sea Sparrow BPDMS launchers Mk 25
- Guns: 2 5"/54 DP Mk 45; 2 20mm Phalanx CIWS Mk 16; 6 20mm Mk 67
- Aircraft: 30 CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters + 6 AV-8B Harrier STOVL; or 20 AV-8B Harrier STOVL + 6 SH-60B/F ASW helicopters
- Complement: 940
- Troops: 1,900+
- Landing craft: 4 LCU 1610 or 7 LCM(8) or 17 LCM(6) or 45 AAV/LVTP-7 but only 1 LCAC because of arrangement of docking well.
- Builder: Litton/Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
- Keel Laid: 15 Nov 1971
- Launched: 1 Dec 1973
- Commissioned: 29 May 1976
- CH-46E Sea Knight
- AH-1W Super Cobra
- CH-53E Sea Stallion
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