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In January 2023, the Navy announced that three Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) had been approved in the 2023 military budget. These will be T-EMS-1 , T-EMS-2 , and T-EMS-3 . These are planned to be about 118m versus the earlier ships 103 metres (338 ft), and have a draft of 4.5 metres (15 ft) for operations in "austere ports".
The Fast Expeditionary Medical Variant design calls for a vessel to be 417 feet long and displace 3,100 metric tons, with a draft of just 13 feet. It is expected to be between 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the Mercy-class hospital ships, and will not replace them, but supplement the US Navy's Enhanced Doctrine for Medical Support to Expeditionary ...
USNS Balboa (T-EMS-2) will be the eighteenth overall Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport, and second Bethesda-class expeditionary medical ship.She will be operated by the United States Navy ' s Military Sealift Command.
In January 2023, the Navy announced that three Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) had been approved in the 2023 military budget. They will be Bethesda, Balboa, and Portsmouth. These are planned to be about 118 metres (387 ft) versus the earlier ships 103 metres (338 ft), and have a draft of 4.5 metres (15 ft) for operations in "austere ports".
Military Sealift Command ships as of January 2022 [1]. This is a list of Military Sealift Command ships.The fleet includes about 130 ships in eight programs: Fleet Oiler (PM1), Special Mission (PM2), Strategic Sealift (PM3), Tow, Salvage, Tender, and Hospital Ship (PM4), Sealift (PM5), Combat Logistics Force (PM6), Expeditionary Mobile Base, Amphibious Command Ship, and Cable Layer (PM7) and ...
EMS: Expeditionary Medical Ship, a EPF modified into a hospital ship [4] ESD: Expeditionary Transfer Dock; ESB: Expeditionary Mobile Base (a variant of ESD, formerly AFSB) EPF: Expeditionary Fast Transport
In 2015 the US Navy created new hull classification symbols that began with an 'E' to designate 'expeditionary' vessels. Expeditionary vessels are designed to support low-intensity missions, allowing more expensive, high-value amphibious warfare ships to be re-tasked for more demanding missions.
Dixmude, a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship French Navy. Mistral-class amphibious assault ship – On board hospital is NATO Echelon level-3, [40] with 69 hospital beds, 7 ICU beds, and an additional 50 beds if needed. The ship also has medical imaging capabilities, such as X-ray, CT-scan and ultrasound. Italian Navy