Abstract
This article reviews about the new landing platform dock (LPD) that is an Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor system, a composite material structure that protects radar and communication antennas from weather, and helps reduce the ship’s vulnerability to detection by hostile radar. The San Antonio has hydraulically controlled gates at the stem, where the landing craft and assault vehicles leave the ship and return. The hydraulic system underwent several design changes in virtual prototype before it ever rocked in the water. Northrop Grumman is building three more San Antonio-class vessels, LPD 18 through 20. The Navy is planning to incorporate into the New York some of the steel that was recovered from the World Trade Center as a memorial to victims of the attack on September 11, 2001.
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