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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunaga·12hMarch 2011. An entire Japanese island was CUT OFF.Kesennuma Oshima. 3,000 people trapped.No power. No water. Harbor obliterated. Freezing cold.The experts said: "No ship can dock. It's impossible."The US Marine Corps looked at the raging sea and said:"Watch us."They fired up the LCACs.Massive hovercrafts built for storming hostile enemy beaches.Ripping across the debris-choked water at 40 knots.Huge jet engines roaring. Spray flying 50 feet into the air.They didn't wait for a harbor.They rammed right onto the frozen sand.Out rolled bulldozers. Generators. Hot water units. Clean food.Marines jumped into the freezing mud to rebuild the power lines.Why?"Because the children need a...

The Italian navy has received the go-ahead to procure two 20,000-ton amphibious assault ships (LHDs), with the possibility of a third ship, configured with extensive aviation facilities (LHA). The preliminary LHD project is funded and will take 12 months for completion. It will be followed by a project definition phase requiring eight months and leading to a contract. Delivery of the first ship comes within 30 months after that. If everything goes to plan, the first LHD arrives in late 2014. LHDs will replace two 8,000-ton San Giorgio-class LPDs, commissioned in 1987 and 1988. The LHA will eventually replace the...