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Pages in category "Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 287 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
The first amphibious warfare ships had a top speed of 12 to 17 knots. With the appearance of higher speed submarines at the end of World War II, the US Navy decided that all new amphibious warfare ships would have to have a minimum speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) to increase their chances of survival. The High Speed Transport destroyer ...
Cold War aircraft carriers of the United States (3 C, 63 P) Cold War amphibious assault ships of the United States (4 P) Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States (287 P)
Three US amphibious warfare ships - a landing helicopter dock leading a landing platform dock (rear) and a landing ship dock (fore). An amphibious warfare ship (or amphib) is an amphibious vehicle warship employed to land and support ground forces, such as marines, on enemy territory during an amphibious assault.
Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States (287 P) This page was last edited on 29 May 2012, at 01:37 (UTC). Text is ...
Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach. [1] Through history the operations were conducted using ship's boats as the primary method of delivering troops to shore.
USS Pocono (AGC-16) was an Adirondack-class amphibious force command ship named after a range of Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania.She was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large-scale operations.
Naval ships of the Korean War (11 C) A. Aircraft carriers of the Cold War (9 C) Amphibious warfare vessels of the Cold War (6 C) B. Cold War battlecruisers (1 C, 1 P)