ÿþ<html> <header> <META NAME="keyword" content="Jeff Head, Dragon's Fury Series, World-Wide Aircraft Carriers, Aircraft Carriers, World's Aircraft Carriers, Navies, Navy, World's Navies, All the World's Aircraft Carriers, Nimitz Class, Kuznetsov, Varyag, The Hapless Varyag, Mystery of the Varyag, Chinese Navy, Plan, Where are the carriers, Naval Aviation, WorldWideAircraftCarriers.com, All the World's Carriers"> <META NAME="description" content="WorldWideAircraftCarriers.com - San Antonio Class Page"> <TITLE>WorldWideAircraftCarriers.com - San Antonio Class Page</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGSTART bgcolor=white BGEND> </header> <body> <!-- --> <!-- Display WWAC logo --> <!-- --> <center> <table width=100%> <tr><td> <center> <img src="wwaclogo.jpg"> </center> </tr></td></table> <!-- --> <!-- Display headers --> <!-- --> <table width=800 border=1> <tr><td colspan=2 valign=center><center> <a href="index.htm"><img border=0 src="menu-carrier-off.gif"></a><img src="center-sanantonio.jpg"><a href="index2.htm"><img border=0 src="menu-amphib-off.gif"></a></center> </td> <tr> <td width=37% align=left valign=center><font size=-1><b> SPECIFICATIONS</b></td> <td width=63% align=left valign=center><font size=-1><b>PHOTOGRAPHS </b>(Click on the pictures for an enlarged photo)</td> </tr> <tr> <td align=left valign=top><font size=-1> <img src="USAFlag.jpg"><br> <u>Designation</u>: LPD<br> <u>Length</u>: 684 ft<br> <u>Width</u>: 105 ft<br> <u>Beam</u>: 105 ft<br> <u>Displacement</u>: 25,000 tons<br> <u>Propulsion</u>: 4 Colt 2.5 STC diesels, 2 shafts<br> <u>Speed</u>: 24 knots<br> <u>Crew (Navy)</u>: 395<br> <u>Troops (Marines)</u>: 700<br> <u>Airwing</u>: 4 rotary, vstol<br> <u>Armament</u>:<br> - 2 X 21 RAM SAM<br> - 2 X 30mm guns<br> - 4 X .50 cal MG<br> - 1 X 16 ESS SAM (Allowed for)<br> <u>Ships in class</u>: 9 complete, 2 building <blockquote> <a href="http://www.san-antonio.navy.mil/" target="_blank">LPD-17 San Antonio</a><br> <a href="http://www.new-orleans.navy.mil/" target="_blank">LPD-18 New Orleans</a><br> <a href="http://www.mesa-verde.navy.mil/" target="_blank">LPD-19 Mesa Verde</a><br> <a href="http://www.green-bay.navy.mil/" target="_blank">LPD-20 Green Bay</a><br> <a href="http://www.new-york.navy.mil/" target="_blank">LPD-21 New York</a><br> <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/09/0922.htm" target=" _blank">LPD-22 San Diego</a><br> <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/09/0923.htm" target=" _blank">LPD-23 Anchorage</a><br> <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/09/0924.htm" target=" _blank">LPD-24 Arlington</a><br> <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/09/0925.htm" target=" _blank">LPD-25 Somerset</a><br> <u>LPD-26 John Murtha</u><br> <u>LPD-27 <i>Unnamed</i></u><br> </blockquote> The San Antonio Class of Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ships represents the first amphibious ships designed to accommodate the Marine Corps' "mobility triad" - Expdeitionary Fighting Vehicles (EFV), Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), and the Marine Corps' new tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey - for high-speed, long-range tactical-lift operations. This means that for Amphibious Assault, the San Antonio class operations can begin well "over-the-horizon" (OTH), as far as 600 miles from an adversary's coastline, and ensure the ability to "reach out and touch someone" hundreds of miles inland, at rapid speeds. <p> The San Antonio Class is designed to support embarking, transporting, and landing elements of a Marine landing force in an assault by helicopters, landing craft, amphibious vehicles, and by a combination of these methods to conduct primary amphibious warfare missions. As such the San Antonio class has been designed and built to fight. Its warfighting capabilities include a state-of-the-art command and control suite, substantially increased vehicle lift capacity, a large flight deck, and advanced ship survivability features that enhance its ability to operate in the unforgiving littoral environment. <p> The heart of the ship's defensive capability is a quick reaction Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS) that correlates sensor information, provides threat identification and evaluation, assesses own-ship defense readiness, and recommends optimal tactical defense responses against anti-ship missile and aircraft attacks in a cluttered conflict environment. <p> The LPD-17 class is the first class of U.S. Navy ships to be equipped with a fiber-optic Shipboard Wide Area Network (SWAN). The SWAN connects all ship systems, combat systems, sensors, and command and control nodes with the ship's warfighting consoles to provide the essential real-time decision-making information required for fighting the ship effectively. <p> Te 1st of class, the USS San Antonio, LPD-17 was commissioned in January 2006. Since that time, eight more vessels have been launched, the last of which was the USS Somerset, LDP-25 in Mayy of 2012. A total of 12 vessels are planned. </td> <td align=center valign=top> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-17.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-17.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-18.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-18.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-19.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-19.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-20.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-20.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-21.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-21.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-22.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-22.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-23.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-23.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-24.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-24.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-25.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-25.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-91.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-91.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-92.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-92.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-93.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-93.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-94.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-94.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-95.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-95.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-96.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-96.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-97.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-97.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-98.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-98.jpg" width=490></a><br> <a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-99.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/sanantonio-99.jpg" width=490></a> </tr> </table> <p> <u>Last Update</u>: May 7, 2012 <p> <!-- \/ GuestGEAR Code by http://htmlgear.com \/ --> <table width=800><tr> <td width=10% align=left valign=center> <a href="http://htmlgear.lycos.com/specs/guest.html"><img border=0 ismap src="http://htmlgear.lycos.com/img/guest/gb_white.gif"></a></td> <td width=20% align=center valign=center> <a target="_NEW" href="http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=libertyordeath&i=7&a=view"><font face="arial,helv,helvetica,sans serif" size=-1>View Guestbook</font></a></td> <td width=40% align=center valign=center> <a href="links.htm">LINKS OF INTEREST</a></td> <td width=20% align=center valign=center> <a target="_NEW" href="http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=libertyordeath&i=7&a=sign"><font face="arial,helv,helvetica,sans serif" size=-1>Sign Guestbook</font></a></td> <td width=10% align=right valign=center> <a href="http://htmlgear.lycos.com/specs/guest.html"><img border=0 ismap src="http://htmlgear.lycos.com/img/guest/gb_white.gif"></a></td> </tr></table> <!-- /\ End GuestGEAR Code /\ --> <table width=800 border="1"> <tr><td><center><table width=90%><tr><td> <font size=-1><a href="http://www.jeffhead.com/about.htm">Jeff Head</a> is an engineering consultant with many years experience in the power, defense, and computer industries. He currently works for the federal government helping maintain and protect regional infrastructure. He is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute, and is also the author of a self-published and best-selling series of military techno-thrillers called the Dragon's Fury that projects a fictional third world war arising out of current events. You can learn more about that series by clicking on the pictures of the novel covers below:</p></font> <p> <center><a href="http://www.dragonsfuryseries.com/" target="_blank"> <img src="../dragonsfury/DFS-WorldWar-Cover.jpg" width=200><br><b> THE DRAGON'S FURY SERIES</a></b></center></td></td></table> <p> Copyright &copy; 2005-2012 by Jeff Head </td></tr></table> <p> <center> <!-- GoStats.com Simple HTML based code --> <a href="http://monster.gostats.com/click.xml?5992" target="_top"><img src="http://monster.gostats.com/bin/count?a=5992&amp;t=4&amp;i=19&amp;z=" style="border-width:0px" alt="free hit counter" /></a><br /> <a style="font-size: 9px" href="http://gostats.com" title="Free Hit Counter">Free Hit Counter</a> <!-- End GoStats.com Simple HTML based code --> </td></tr></table></center> </body></html>