For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA was awarded a $91,535,551 fixed-price incentive and firm-fixed-price type modification to definitize a previously… ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The U.S. Navy awarded Austal USA a $91,535,551 contract to build three Landing Craft Utility 1700 class craft, with an option for nine more boats, Austal announced Wedne… ...

The Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 1700 is an open, 139-foot-long vessel with a front ramp that allows it to drop troops and vehicles onto beaches. (Austal USA/Facebook) ...

Assault Craft Unit 2, based at JEB Little Creek-Fort Story, operates as the in-between for amphibious class LPDs. Their ships are capable of carry supplies, troops, cargo, equipment or vehicles ...

October 19, 2013: Russia is building an interesting and innovative class of Dyugon high-speed landing craft (LCU). These are 280 ton boats that can carry 140 tons of cargo or up to 5 armored vehicles ...

In 2019, the Army moved to divest a significant number of its vessels, moving about half of its Landing Craft Utility platforms to mothballs and closing down eight reserve boat units.

A Japanese Maneuver Combat Vehicle offloads from a U.S. Army landing craft, utility (LCU) at Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo (CFAS), on September 27, 2021. Next in line are the Army’s landing ...

The boat, to be christened Nihonbare (pennant number ‘4151’) once it has been commissioned next March, is being constructed by the Setoda Shipyard of Naikai Zosen in Hiroshima Prefecture. The Japan ...

There, the pallets will be transferred onto trucks that in turn will be loaded onto two types of smaller Army boats — Logistic Support Vessels, or LSVs, and Landing Craft Utility boats, LCUs.

The LCU 1700 isn’t the only landing craft in Austal’s sights. For several years, Austal has been one of the competitors doing preliminary design work on a class that formerly was known as the ...

Assault Craft Unit 2, based at JEB Little Creek-Fort Story, operates as the in-between for amphibious class LPDs. Their ships are capable of carry supplies, troops, cargo, equipment or vehicles ...