Tarawa Class: Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Service ... Landing/Attack Craft: 4 LCUs or 2 LCUs and 1 LCAC. Amphibious Assault Ships are the U.S. Navy’s largest of all amphibious warfare ships.

As part of the 2024 Exercise Rim of the Pacific, the US managed to sink the decommissioned USS Tarawa on July 19. The ship, an amphibious assault ship that weighed 39,000 tons and was the size of ...

The amphibious assault ships, whether Tarawa, Wasp, or America-class, look like smaller aircraft carriers with flight decks where Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft can land and depart from ...

Over the past 25 years, Ingalls has been the sole builder of the Navy's two most advanced amphibious assault ship classes — Tarawa class LHAs arid Wasp class LHDs — as well as builder of 60 ...