Универсальный десантный корабль USS Helmand Province (LHA-10)
Классификация
Основная информация
Главные размерения
Машина
- 2 * marine gas turbines, 70,000 bhp (52,000 kW)
- 2 * 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) auxiliary propulsion motors
- 2 * shafts
Персонал
Боевые силы и средства
- 4 * Landing Craft Air Cushion or
- 1 * Landing Craft Utility
- AN/SPQ-9B fire control
- AN/SPY-6(V)2 EASR airsearch radar
- AN/SLQ-32B(V)2
- 2 * Mk53 Nulka decoy launchers
- 2 * Rolling Airframe Missile launchers
- 2 * Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile launchers
- 2 * 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts
- 7 * twin .50 BMG 12.7mm machine guns
- MV-22B Osprey
- F-35B Lightning II
- CH-53K King Stallion
- UH-1Y Venom
- AH-1Z Viper
- MH-60S Knighthawk
USS Helmand Province (LHA-10) will be the fifth America-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. The ship is named after the Afghan Helmand Province, the site of a US Marine Corps campaign during the War in Afghanistan.
The design of Helmand Province is based on USS Makin Island, which is an improved version of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. While Makin Island has a well deck, the earlier two Flight 0 America-class ships USS America and USS Tripoli were designed and built without a well deck to make space for aircraft and aviation fuel.
She will be the third Flight I America-class ship, and as such will include a well deck. The design of the Flight I America-class ships, including that of Helmand Province, adopts a compromise, incorporating a slightly smaller aircraft hangar as well as smaller medical and other spaces to fit a small well deck for surface connector operations. The island structure will also be modified to free up more room on the flight deck to accommodate maintenance of V-22s, compensating for some of the lost aircraft hangar space.
The then-LHA-10 was authorized by the United States Congress in 2023, providing $US 1.38 billion for her procurement.
The ship was named by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro on 2 May 2024, intending to honor the US sailors and marines who fought in the strategic Helmand Province Campaign during the War in Afghanistan.
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