The Landing Ship Medium (LSM) is billed as the “affordable shore-to-shore USMC maneuver capability,” according to a summary of the program reviewed by USNI News.

Under the fiscal year 2024 budget, the Navy sought to purchase the first landing ship medium in fiscal year 2025 at a cost of $187.9 million, with a total of at least six LSMs purchased by fiscal ...

The Navy’s Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program, previously called the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) program, envisions procuring a class of 18 to 35 new amphibious ships to support the Marine ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are nearing agreement on the requirements and cost of the Landing Ship Medium program, formerly called the Light Amphibious Warship, after ...

The Navy is relying on the combination of the annual defense budget and supplemental legislation to buy 19 new ships in 2026, ...

Current concept designs have the landing ship medium at 200-feet to 400-feet in length with 8,000 square feet of cargo space.

The HOS RESOLUTION Stern Landing Vessel uses its organic ship systems to enable a beach landing via a stern ramp on Sept. 18, 2023. (Cpl. Nicholas Martinez/U.S. Marine Corps) ARLINGTON, Va ...

The Medium Landing Ship would be just 200 to 400 feet long with a loading ramp, a helicopter pad, a few light guns for self-defence and space for 70 crew, a platoon of 50 Marines as well as 650 ...

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has repeatedly said the service will need at least 35 medium landing ships to support its new Marine Littoral Regiments, but the Navy has pushed back ...

The Medium Landing Ship (LSM) is how Marine littoral regiments armed with anti-ship and anti-air weapons will maneuver throughout the first island chain, the strategically crucial arc of countries ...

Given the designation "LSMR" for "Landing Ship Medium – Rocket," their size and cargo space enabled the ships to carry thousands of rockets at a time, and their shallow draft enabled them to ...