USS America-LHA 6

by Barry Jones

Title

USS America-LHA 6

Artist

Barry Jones

Medium

Photograph - Hdr

Description

The USS America (LHA 6) was built at the Northrop Grumman Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The vessel is an Amphibious Assault Ship. Its Standard Configuration is:

Ten F-35B Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) STOVL aircraft
Twelve MV-22 Osprey VTOL tiltrotors
Four CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters
Eight AH-1Z Super Cobra helicopters
four MH-60S Seahawk helicopters
Complement 65 officers, 994 enlisted
Load:
1,687 troops (plus 184 surge)
Ships Company 100 officers, 1,000 enlisted
Marine Detachment: 1,800
Armament
Two Mk-29 NATO Evolved Sea Sparrow launchers
Tow MK49 Rolling Airframe Missile [RAM]
Three 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts
eight .50 cal. machine guns
Two - Mk-29 NATO Evolved Sea Sparrow launchers
Electronics
AN/USG-2 Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC)
SSDS MK2
Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-N)
AN/USQ-T46(V) BFTT
IFF Interrogator System AN/UPX-29 (V)
AN/SRC-55
AN/TPX-42A(V)14
AN/SPN-35C
AN/WSN-7 RLGN
AN/SPS-48 Radar
AN/SPS-49 Radar
AN/SPQ-9B Radar

Thank God for the men and women who have the skill and talent to build defensive machines like this to help combat and deter would be terrorist and aggressive countries. Too often we forget about the workers that provide for our safety.

My Mother was a tacker at the old Ingalls Shipyard during WWII while my Father served the US Navy in the South Pacific. Later my Father helped Loft the first Nuclear Submarine built at Ingalls.

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June 18th, 2013

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