The USS Tripoli is not quite an aircraft carrier—but her complement of F-35s serve as a shot across the bow to China after ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 242 , 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a fly off aboard ...

The amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli is on its way to Japan, where it will replace the USS America as the lead vessel of the Navy’s sole amphibious ready group outside the United States. The ...

U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM-265 (Rein.), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Navy Sailors conduct flight operations aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault carrier ...

U.S. Navy Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Ozzy Hammond fires a shot line on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during fueling-at-sea with Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet ...

The America-class amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli leaves San Diego Bay on May 19. (Photo by Sara L. Eshleman/U.S. Navy) The Navy’s two newest amphibious assault ships, the USS America and USS ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The US has two aircraft carriers and an amphibious assault ship in the Western Pacific amid China’s military exercises around Taiwan.

The amphibious assault ship Tripoli makes its way through San Diego Harbor on Nov. 29, 2022, as it returns to Naval Base San Diego from its maiden voyage to the Indo-Pacific. (MC2 Brett McMinoway/U.S.

The amphibious assault ship can deploy Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU) with up to 2,200 troops and serve as the flagship of an expeditionary strike group or an amphibious ready group. Yet, it is ...

Culinary Specialist 1st Class Jaelyn Lightburn, from Charleston, South Carolina, plays cornhole during a steel beach picnic on the flight deck aboard amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7), ...