|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Whidbey Island class Dock Landing
Ship - LSD |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Ships: |
||||||
|
Units |
in service |
Builder |
||||
|
LSD 41 USS
Whidbey Island |
1985 |
Lockheed
Shipbuilding, Seattle, Washington, USA |
||||
|
LSD 42 USS
Germantown |
1986 |
Lockheed
Shipbuilding, Seattle, Washington, USA |
||||
|
LSD 43 USS Fort
McHenry |
1987 |
Lockheed
Shipbuilding, Seattle, Washington, USA |
||||
|
LSD 44 USS
Gunston Hall |
1989 |
Avondale
Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
||||
|
LSD 45 USS
Comstock |
1990 |
Avondale
Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
||||
|
LSD 46 USS
Tortuga |
1990 |
Avondale
Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
||||
|
LSD 47 USS
Rushmore |
1991 |
Avondale
Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
||||
|
LSD 48 USS
Ashland |
1992 |
Avondale
Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
||||
|
|
||||||
|
Specifications: |
||||||
|
Displacement: |
16200 tons (full load) |
|||||
|
Length: |
185,6 meters |
|||||
|
Beam: |
26 meters |
|||||
|
Draft: |
6,4 meters |
|||||
|
Max Speed: |
20+ knots (= 37+ km/h) |
|||||
|
Propulsion: |
4 x Colt
Industries 16-cylinder diesel-engines 33000 shp, total 2 shafts / 2
controllable pitch propellers |
|||||
|
Aviation: |
flight deck: 212 feet (64,6 meters) long / 83 feet (25,3
meters) wide 2 landing spots / no hangar |
|||||
|
Well Deck: |
440 feet (134 meters) long / 50 feet (15,25
meters) wide floodable to 10 feet (3 meters) aft / 6 feet
(1,83 meters) forward Landing force: 4
LCAC’s or 21 LCM-6 or up to 36 AAV’s |
|||||
|
Complement: |
Ship:
350 Marine Detachment:
402 plus 102 surge |
|||||
|
Armament: |
2 x Mk-49
launcher for RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) (added later) 2 x Mk-38
machine gun systems (MGS) 6 x .50 caliber (12,7 mm) machine guns |
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
Armament (defensive): |
||||||
|
2 x Mk-15 close-in weapon system (CIWS) and 2 x Mk-49 Rolling Airframe
Missile (RAM) launcher (added later)
Mk-38 Mod.2 25mm machine gun system
.50 caliber machine gun |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
detail images: |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
