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Amphibious assault ship USS Fallujah (LHA-9)

Amphibious assault ship USS Fallujah (LHA-9) 0

Classification

Ship class:
America-class amphibious assault ship
Type:
Amphibious assault ship (LHA, LHD, LPH)

Basic information

Namesake:
The first and second battle of Fallujah
Operator:
United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Ingalls ShipbuildingIngalls Shipbuilding
Ordered:
Status:
Under construction

Ship measurements

Displacement:
45,693 t
Length:
257 m
Beam:
32 m
Draft:
7.9 m

Machine

Propulsion:
  • 2 * marine gas turbines, 70,000 bhp (52,000 kW)
  • 2 * 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) auxiliary propulsion motors
  • 2 * shafts
Speed:
22 knots

Personnel

Complement:
1,059
Embarked units:
1,687

Combat assets

Boats & landing craft:
  • 2 * Landing Craft Air Cushion or
  • 1 * Landing Craft Utility
Electronics:
  • AN/SPQ-9B fire control
  • AN/SPY-6(V)2 EASR airsearch radar
  • AN/SLQ-32B(V)2
  • 2 * Mk53 Nulka decoy launchers
Armament:
  • 2 * Rolling Airframe Missile launchers
  • 2 * Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile launchers
  • 2 * 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts
  • 7 * twin .50 BMG 12.7mm machine guns
Aircraft:
  • MV-22B Osprey
  • F-35B Lightning II
  • CH-53K King Stallion
  • UH-1Y Venom
  • AH-1Z Viper
  • MH-60S Knighthawk

USS Fallujah (LHA-9) will be an America-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy and the first ship to bear this name to commemorate the first and second battles at Fallujah during the Iraq War in 2004. On 13 December 2022, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the name in a press release.

Fallujah is currently being built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi by Huntington Ingalls Industries and began fabrication on 19 December 2022.

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