Amphibious Assault Ship?
Looks like an Aircraft Carrier to me.
Why the fancy name?
That’s no aircraft carrier. It’s an assault ship. Look up pictures of the difference. About 1/8 the firepower. Just a guess on the ratio.
Lotsa choppers and marines and those hovercraft things. It’s not a birdfarm
Non nuke a/c carriers are called AAS. We have about a dozen of each.
“Why the fancy name?”
Because it’s full of enough Marines and their organic firepower to take over a small to medium sized country all by itself.
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Because it also carries a bunch of infantry Marines and amphibious assault vehicles.
1600 Marines and a flock of Ospreys. Just enough fighters for local air defense.
Amphibious Assault Ship?
Looks like an Aircraft Carrier to me.
Why the fancy name?
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It’s standard issue duty is part of a USMC MEU.
Here’s some info on that.
SIX HOURS: Forward Deployed Marine Expeditionary Units
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciLST5zeMWE&list=PLD4743007E011AD13
7 vids already in play order. None more than 5 minutes long. The problem they’re working up in the vids is to put a company of USMC infantry plus support elements ashore for a raid on a target. it’s one of the final test exercises before a MEU goes on float.
This will give you an idea of what’s in a MEU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_expeditionary_unit
The wiki link also has a list of the MEUs and their home units and areas of responsibility.
Units rotate in and out of the MEU structures. There’s a MEU afloat, units working up and training up to replace those units in that MEU when that float is done.
The MEUs are permanent. The units that make up the MEU change every float.
The units that make up the MEUs come from the general USMC unit rosters of the bases from which the MEUs are attached.
All of them are actually A type of aircraft carrier just not super sonic. They also have, i believe, helicopters and they have a task force of dupport ships with them like an aircraft Carrier group only smaller.
Someone told me that if you count them and all of our full sized Carrier groups together there’s like 27 aircraft Carrier type task forces.
I wish we had a real navy guy here to clarify but I’m not so sure we want to be clarifying the capabilities of anything we have anywhere at this point in time.
We seem to be on an actual war footing with China right now and it could go hot.
If we knew that it was actually a biological weapon in that was released on purpose this is the kind of pathway I would take to slowly crank up useful forces in the appropriate regions to physically retaliate and destroy the enemy who in this case may actually be Communist China who is at war with us.
This wouldn’t be the 1st time that 1 nation winning a trade war triggered International conflict.
All of them are actually A type of aircraft carrier just not super sonic. They also have, i believe, helicopters and they have a task force of dupport ships with them like an aircraft Carrier group only smaller.
Someone told me that if you count them and all of our full sized Carrier groups together there’s like 27 aircraft Carrier type task forces.
I wish we had a real navy guy here to clarify but I’m not so sure we want to be clarifying the capabilities of anything we have anywhere at this point in time.
We seem to be on an actual war footing with China right now and it could go hot.
If we knew that it was actually a biological weapon in that was released on purpose this is the kind of pathway I would take to slowly crank up useful forces in the appropriate regions to physically retaliate and destroy the enemy who in this case may actually be Communist China who is at war with us.
This wouldn’t be the 1st time that 1 nation winning a trade war triggered International conflict.
The USS America is an LHA-hull that’s optimized for aviation. They removed the well deck for this particular vessel (that’s the stern opening for floating out landing craft) and are using the increased space for weapons stores, fuel and aircraft hangar. The concept is an all-aviation vessel.
The air group is modular. The Navy/Marine Corps can go heavy on the F-35 component (minimal helicopters) and create something called a “Lightning Carrier” — in effect a light aircraft carrier from WW2 days, but with a deck full of stealth fighters. I suspect that they might be doing that here.
US amphibious assault ships carry helicopters and V/STOL aircraft like the Osprey and F-35B and about 1,600 Marines. These vessels are intended to be able to land and support their Marines in rescue and combat operations. They are not a substitute for the far larger and more powerful US fleet aircraft carriers with their 90 or so fixed wing fighter and attack aircraft.