Back Třída America (US Navy) Czech America-klassen Danish America-Klasse (2014) German Clase America Spanish Classe America French אוניות הסער האמפיביות מסדרת אמריקה HE Classe America Italian アメリカ級強襲揚陸艦 Japanese 아메리카급 강습상륙함 Korean America klasės jūros desanto laivas Lithuanian
_F-35B_loaded.jpg) USS America (LHA-6) sailing in 2018.
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders | |
| Operators |  United States Navy |
| Preceded by | Wasp class |
| Cost | US$10.094 billion – initial program cost for 3 ships ($3.4B/unit[1] FY15) |
| Built | 2008– |
| In commission | 2014– |
| Planned | 11 |
| Building | 2 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Active | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Landing helicopter assault (LHA) |
| Displacement | 44,971 long tons (45,693 t)[2] full load |
| Length | 844 ft (257 m)[3][4] |
| Beam | 106 ft (32 m) |
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| Speed | Over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | |
| Sensors and processing systems | |
| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | |
| Aviation facilities | Hangar deck |
The America class (formerly the LHA(R) class) is a ship class of landing helicopter assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy (USN). The class is designed to put ashore a Marine Expeditionary Unit using helicopters and MV-22B Osprey V/STOL transport aircraft, supported by AV-8B Harrier II or F-35 Lightning II V/STOL aircraft and various attack helicopters. The first of these warships was commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 2014 to replace USS Peleliu of the Tarawa class; as many as eleven will be built.[8] The design of the America class is based on that of USS Makin Island, the last ship of the Wasp class, but the "Flight 0" ships of the America class will not have well decks, and have smaller on-board hospitals to provide more space for aviation uses.
Although they carry only helicopters and V/STOL aircraft, the America class, with a displacement of about 45,000 long tons (46,000 t), is similar in size to the French Charles de Gaulle and the Indian Vikramaditya fixed-wing aircraft carriers. Also, while more than 124 feet (38 m) shorter, America class ships are of comparable displacement to the former US Navy Midway-class aircraft carriers.
Ships of the America class can be used as a small aircraft carrier with a squadron of jet fighters plus several multipurpose helicopters, such as the MH-60 Seahawk. They can carry about 20 to 25 AV-8B, F-35Bs, or a mixture of the two, but the future ships of this class, starting with USS Bougainville (LHA-8), will have smaller aircraft hangars to leave room for larger amphibious warfare well decks.[9]
- ^ "GAO-15-342SP Defense Acquisitions Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs" (PDF). US Government Accountability Office. March 2015. p. 105. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ Cavas, Christopher P. (4 November 2013). "New big-deck amphib AMERICA (LHA 6) takes to the sea for the first time". Defense News. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ^ "PREPARED IN WAR OR IN PEACE". allhands.navy.mil. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ "America class Amphibious Assault Ship - LHA". seaforces.org. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
dote08was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "The US Navy - Fact File: AN/SPS-48G". America's Navy. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ^ Osborn, Kris (3 June 2014). "First America-class Amphib Nears Completion". Defense Tech. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ Freedberg, Sydney J. Jr. (3 October 2012). "Navy's Newest, LHA-6, A Dead End For Amphibious Ships?". Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2016.