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LPD 17 is different. It was conceived to support ... was much less expensive than developing a new class of ship. The San Antonio-class design anticipated a number of threat trends now confronting ...

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, sponsor of LPD-17 the San Antonio, christens the Navy’s the in New Orleans in 2003. US Navy Photo Ten years ago, on Jan. 14, 2006, lead ship USS San Antonio ...

The US Navy’s 14 th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, LPD 30, was christened at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division. Named in honour of Harrisburg ...

HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division has initiated fabrication of the U.S. Navy's latest San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, the Philadelphia (LPD 32), marking the cutting of the first 100 ...

HII announced the christening of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock Harrisburg (LPD 30) at its Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on January 11, 2025.

The Harrisburg (LPD 30) will be the 14th vessel in the San Antonio-class. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has launched its new LPD Flight II, San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, the ...

McCool Jr. (LPD-29), honoring Medal of Honor recipient Capt. McCool. LPD-29 is the final Flight I variant of the San Antonio class, with 13 more advanced Flight II ships planned. -The LPDs serve ...