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A Landing Ship, Tank is a type of amphibious warfare ship class designed to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, along with other military vehicles and cargo, and landing troops directly o
A Canadian LST off-loads an M4 Sherman during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.
Turkish Bayraktar-class LSTs equipped with modern sensors such as SMART-S Mk2 radar and armaments such as CIWS and RCWS along with aviation facilities
Inside of the Russian Ivan Gren-class LST
U.S. LSTs carrying the Australian 26th Brigade from Morotai Island to Tarakan Island in April 1945
Newport-class tank landing ships were an improved class of tank landing ship designed for and employed by the United States Navy from 1969 to 2002. The ships were intended to provide substantial advan
Landing Ship, Tank
…War II, the Royal Netherlands Navy used three borrowed LST Mk.3s to transport soldiers and material in the Dutch East Indies. The commissioning of the Newport class in 1969 marked the introduction of an entirely new concept in the design of LSTs. She was the first of a new class of 20 LSTs capable of steaming at a…
USS Newport (LST-1179)
USS Frederick with its bow ramp extended
USS Racine bow view with bow ramp sitting on deck
USS San Bernardino during a landing exercise in 1979