The following is the Jan. 23, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Medium Landing Ship (LSM) Program: Background ...

After years of delays procuring its own Medium Landing Ship (LSM) to ferry platoon-size elements of Marines between West Pacific islands during a war with China, the U.S. Navy is now looking to ...

Secretary Carlos Del Toro continued his streak of naming ships, as his tenure as the Navy’s top civilian comes to an end. Del ...

The Navy’s Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program, previously called the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) program, envisions ...

But the strategy requires a new ship – an easy-to-hide medium landing ship that’s cheap enough for the US Navy to buy quickly ...

Huntington Ingalls in Pascagoula will build all four new ships – three San Antonio-class landing platforms and an America-class big-deck assault ship – with keels laid in 2025, 2027 and 2029.

a long-grounded World War II-era tank landing ship, or LST. There’s a good chance the HOS Resolution may stay out in Asian waters. It is too old to serve again as an old-school workboat.