The US Navy is stationing its new "lightning carrier" in the Indo-Pacific to counter China's growing military influence. The America-class amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli is replacing the first-in ...
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Why USS Tripoli’s F-35B Deck Changes Amphibious War

What happens when an amphibious ship starts doing part of a carrier’s job? The more revealing story behind USS Tripoli is not any single hypothetical island assault. It is the engineering and doctrine ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The US Navy's USS Tripoli (LHA-7) amphibious assault ship during ...
The Navy is trying to preserve a sea-based Marine airpower option on ships that are becoming harder to keep at sea. The “lightning carrier” concept depends on big-deck amphibious assault ships that ...
We explain the composition, role and capabilities of the US Navy amphibious ready group (ARG), in addition to the marine[...] ...