The USS Tarawa amphibious assault ship is the world's largest new aircraft carrier-type multi-purpose amphibious warfare ship designed and built by the United States in the 1970s. Displacement of 39,300 tons when fully loaded. To helicopter attack amphibious assault ship, to carry large landing craft amphibious transportation dock ship and amphibious cargo ships and other amphibious ship functions all integrated in the ship.
The wide flight deck can accommodate 9 Seahorse helicopters or 12 Sea Knight helicopters. The hangar can accommodate 30 Sea Knight helicopters or 25 AV~SA vertical, short take-off and landing aircraft. There are also 8 mechanized landing craft and 10 vehicle and personnel landing craft on the flight deck. Below the hangar is a large wet dock for landing craft, 82 meters long and 24 meters wide, which can accommodate four large general-purpose landing craft or six mechanized landing craft. The ship's total **** can carry about 40 landing craft of various types. In the large and deep cargo hold, with a large number of supplies and equipment; living quarters can accommodate a reinforced battalion of marines, 2000 beds for the landing forces. The ship was relatively well equipped with medical equipment, including two main operating rooms, one compact operating room, two X-ray rooms, as well as a blood bank and an isolation ward. There is also a casualty shelter on the flight deck and a special elevator to transfer the sick and wounded.
The Tarawa is not heavily armed, with only two Sea Sparrow air-to-air missile launchers, three 127-millimeter single-barrel rapid-fire guns and six 20-millimeter single-barrel rapid-fire guns. Ship command and control system is very complete, equipped with amphibious tactical data integrated system, which has both tactical data system and information management system functions, can assist the ship command direct command amphibious operations. In addition to the ship has a combat room, there are landing force operations control room, fire support control room, tactical aircraft coordination room, communications room, intelligence center and other command institutions. Soviet "Ivan Rogov" class amphibious transport dock ship
Ivan Rogov (Ivanrogov) class, is the Soviet Union modeled on the Western amphibious dock landing ship construction of a type of amphibious transport dock ship. 1978 ~ 1982 **** built three.
The main technical performance is: full load displacement of 12,600 tons. Length 158 meters, width 24.5 meters, draft 6.5 meters. Power plant for 2 gas turbines, power 48,000 horsepower, twin shaft, speed 25 knots, range of 4,000 nautical miles / and Lv knot. The establishment of 250 people.
The class of ships are equipped with: l twin SA-N-4 air-to-air missile launchers; 2 twin 76-mm guns; l 122-mm BM-21 guns; 2 20-tube rocket launchers; 4 6-barrel 30-mm guns; 4 K-29 snails. -The ship is equipped with a bow and tongue door. This class of ship has the first tongue door, has the ability to beach, tank deck size of 61 meters long, 14 meters wide, can load 20 tanks. The aft door opens into the docking bay, which is 76 meters long and 14 meters wide, and can carry four new air cushion landing craft of the Swan class and one mechanized troop landing craft. It can deliver 522 marines.