Landing Ship Medium Program Stalled Over Price, Navy Cancels Industry RFP. Mallory Shelbourne. December 17, 2024 6:06 PM - Updated: December 18, 2024 10:20 AM. Landing Ship Medium concept.

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 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The USMC has access to 31 Amphibious Warfare Ships and 35 Medium Landing Ships to accomplish its missions. Amphibious assault ships. Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images.

Terafulk Megantara Design showcased a new 120-metre Landing Ship Tank (LST) design to meet the Indonesian Navy’s (TNI AL) ...

In a first, a GA-ASI (General Atomics Aeronautical Systems) Gray Eagle STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) unmanned aircraft took off from the RoKN (Republic of Korea Navy) amphibious landing ship ...