User:Eastshire/USS Tripoli (LHA-7)
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| Name | USS Tripoli |
| Namesake | "Shores of Tripoli" |
| Ordered | 31 May 2012 |
| Builder | Huntington Ingalls Industries |
| Status | Ordered |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | America-class amphibious assault ship |
| Displacement | 45,000 tons |
| Length | 844 ft (257 m) |
| Beam | 106 ft (32 m) |
| Propulsion | Two gas turbines, two shafts, wiith 70,000 total brake horsepower, and two 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) auxiliary propulsion engines. |
| Speed | 20 knots or possibly more |
| Troops | 1,687 Marines |
| Complement | 65 officers, 994 enlisted men |
| Sensors and processing systems | list error: <br /> list (help) AN/SPQ-9B fire control radar AN/SPS-48E air search radar |
| Electronic warfare & decoys | list error: <br /> list (help) AN/SLQ-32B(V)2 two Mk53 Nulka decoy launchers |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) Two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers two Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile launchers two Phalanx CIWS systems seven dual .50 caliber machine guns |
| Armor | none |
| Aircraft carried | list error: <br /> list (help) F-35B Lightning II MV-22B Osprey CH-53E Super Stallions OR Sikorsky CH-53K Super Stallion helicopters UH-1Y Venom AH-1Z Viper SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III |
USS Tripoli (LHA-7) will be an America-class amphibious assault ship built at Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The United States Navy ordered the Tripoli on 31 May 2012 with a contract valued at $2.38 billion. [1] Tripoli is the third ship named for a line from the Marines' Hymn, "to the shores of Tripoli," a reference to the First Barbary War.
References[edit]
- ^ The Associated Press (2012-05-31). "Mississippi shipyard gets $2.38 billion Navy contract to build amphibious assault ship". nola.com. Retrieved 2012-06-22.