With the sinking of the USS Tarawa, the US will have gathered a significant amount of data in just how mature such operating concepts as Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile are becoming.

An F/A-18-fired anti-ship missile was used to sink the former amphibious assault ship on July 19 during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024. Named for a famous World War II battle, the Tarawa is the ...

FAQs What was USS Tarawa and why is this in the news now? The US has destroyed its own decommissioned amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa, in the Pacific Ocean. The lead ship of her class was an ...

The Tarawa-class LHAs and Wasp-class LHDs provide the Marine Corps with a means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by landing craft.

The USS Tarawa — a venerable, decommissioned amphibious assault ship that was a fixture in San Diego for decades — was sunk by a missile as a part of war games off Hawaii on Friday, the Navy ...

The ex-Tarawa was one of two surface vessels sunk during RIMPAC. On July 11, the ex-USS Dubuque, a 17,000-ton amphibious transport dock was sent to the bottom of the Pacific, also off Kauai.

Four Tarawa-class amphibious assault ships were decommissioned by 2011. The final vessel in service, USS Peleliu, was decommissioned in 2015.

The former amphibious transport dock Dubuque and amphibious assault ship Tarawa were sent 15,000 feet under July 11 and 19, respectively, as part of the 2024 Rim of the Pacific exercise, or RIMPAC.

Eight days after the military smoked the USS Dubuque, the Navy and partners sunk the amphibious assault ship the USS Tarawa. That was one of the largest ships sunk at RIMPAC.

The planned destruction of the USS Tarawa in the war games coincided with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s efforts to expand its amphibious assault ship fleets, which would be “top target ...

This year marks the second time a Tarawa-class ship has been used for a SINKEX, following the sinking of the ex-USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3) during RIMPAC 2006. H/T Ryan Chan for the heads up!

This year’s target, The former USS Tarawa was commissioned in 1976 and named for the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific during World War II.