USS New Orleans (LPD-18)
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USS New Orleans, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the fourth commissioned ship of the United States Navy to be named after the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
USS New Orleans on 2 July 2009
USS New Orleans entering San Diego
New Orleans sailing with SS Curtiss, USS Somerset, ARM Usumacinta, and ARM Revolucion, during Dawn Blitz, 1 September 2015.
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The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the German, Japanese, Greek, Turkish, South Korean, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Mexican, UAE
USS New Orleans (LPD-18)
…officers, 633 enlisted) w. surge to 800 total Complement 33 officers, 364 enlisted Armament 2 × 30 mm Bushmaster II guns for surface threat defense; 2 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense & missile defense Aircraft carried Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 "Osprey" tilt rotor aircraft may be launched…
A RIM-116 being launched from USS New Orleans in 2013
Sailors handle the rolling airframe missile system aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt launches a Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM).
USS America (LHA 6) launching a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile