http://news.usni.org/2015/02/23/navy...-to-hii-nassco
LHA-8 will be based on the America-class amphib (LHA-6), which was designed and built without a welldeck, which allows amphibious ships to deploy landing craft. The Department of the Navy decided to include the feature in the yet unnamed LHA-8 following a weight gain of Marine Corps ground vehicles that would make them too heavy to be transported by helicopter. The change will require an extensive redesign of the ship from the original aviation intensive America hull.
hmmm, since the America class was a re-design of the USS Makin Island LHD-8, and they are going back to a well deck, they already have the drawings, just remove the "D" in LHD-8 and replace it with an "A" for LHA-8.. problem solved, build and repeat..
LHA-8 will be based on the America-class amphib (LHA-6), which was designed and built without a welldeck, which allows amphibious ships to deploy landing craft. The Department of the Navy decided to include the feature in the yet unnamed LHA-8 following a weight gain of Marine Corps ground vehicles that would make them too heavy to be transported by helicopter. The change will require an extensive redesign of the ship from the original aviation intensive America hull.
hmmm, since the America class was a re-design of the USS Makin Island LHD-8, and they are going back to a well deck, they already have the drawings, just remove the "D" in LHD-8 and replace it with an "A" for LHA-8.. problem solved, build and repeat..
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