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    Landing platform helicopter (LPH) is a term used by some navies to denote a type of amphibious warfare ship designed primarily to operate as a launch...
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    amphibious ships such as the landing platform helicopter (LPH), landing helicopter assault (LHA), and landing helicopter dock (LHD). In the Pacific theater...
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    A landing helicopter dock (LHD) is a multipurpose amphibious assault ship that is capable of operating as a helicopter carrier and also has a well deck...
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    HMS Ocean was a Landing Platform Helicopter, formerly the UK's helicopter carrier and the fleet flagship of the Royal Navy. She was designed to support...
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    Dock landing ship Landing Platform Helicopter List of amphibious warfare ships List of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships § Landing Platform Dock...
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    amphibious assault ship (독도급 대형수송함; 獨島級 大型輸送艦) is a class of landing platform helicopter (LPH) and amphibious assault ships operated by the Republic of...
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    well deck of the Landing Ship Dock (LSD) or Landing Platform Dock (LPD) and the full flight deck of the Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) into one ship...
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    constructed in the United Kingdom for service with the Royal Navy as a landing platform helicopter, she was commissioned on 30 September 1998 as HMS Ocean, serving...
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    Landing helicopter assault (LHA) is the United States Navy's hull classification symbol for the general-purpose helicopter-carrying amphibious assault...
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    embarking troops such as marines and landing them ashore; they are classified as amphibious assault ships. Helicopter carriers have been used as anti-submarine...
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    Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship (category Helicopter carrier classes)
    decommissioned in 2002. The hull classification of "LPH" stands for "Landing Platform Helicopter". Ships of this class participated in several conflicts and peacekeeping...
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    The Rotterdam class[citation needed] are two landing platform dock (LPD) ships in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy. Built by Damen Schelde Naval...
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    A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft. While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on...
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    carrier-landing helicopter dock (LHD) in the Spanish Navy (Armada Española). Similar in role to many aircraft carriers, the amphibious landing ship has...
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  • or other similar troops. The Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) replaced the APA in the late 1960s and provided helicopters to land troops and supplies...
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    dock which can accommodate four landing craft, as well as a flight deck which can accommodate two medium lift helicopters. While the RSN describes the Endurance-class...
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  • and the Suez Crisis as a helicopter platform and was scrapped in 1962. HMS Ocean (L12) was a Landing Platform, Helicopter (LPH) launched in 1995 and...
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    (modern) LSD has a helicopter deck, a landing platform dock also has a hangar, and a landing helicopter dock or landing helicopter assault has a full-length...
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    (/əˈpætʃi/ ə-PATCH-ee) is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Nose-mounted...
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  • La Palma, California. A US Navy hull classification symbol: Landing platform helicopter (LPH) Left posterior hemiblock, a cardiovascular disease Liberal...
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    Examples: LHA: Landing Helicopter Assault (Tarawa class, America class) LHD: Landing Helicopter Dock (Wasp class) LPH: Landing Platform Helicopter (Iwo Jima...
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  • The procurement of Landing Platform Docks (LPD) by the Indian Navy, formerly known as the "Multi-Role Support Vessel Program" (MRSV) - is an initiative...
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    HMS Clyde, and the frigate, HMS Lancaster. He went on to command the landing platform helicopter, HMS Ocean and then, from September 2018, the aircraft carrier...
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    The America class (formerly the LHA(R) class) is a ship class of landing helicopter assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships for the United States Navy...
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    post-World War II Helicopter carrier Amphibious assault ship Landing helicopter assault Landing helicopter dock Landing platform helicopter List of STOVL...
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    ASW aircraft. Landing platform helicopter–converted ships such as Boxer never had an angled landing deck installed and flew only helicopters such as the...
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    types: the landing platform helicopter (LPH), the amphibious transport dock (LPD), the amphibious cargo ship (LKA), and the dock landing ship (LSD)....
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    for aircraft. Cavour can also operate as landing platform helicopter, accommodating heavy transport helicopters (AgustaWestland UH-101A ASH) and 325 marines...
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    readiness (available for reactivation if required) Landing platform helicopter ship Ocean Landing platform dock ships Fearless Intrepid Commando carriers...
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    USS Boxer (CV-21) (category Helicopter carriers)
    extensively modified internally as part of her conversion to a Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH), external modifications were minor, so throughout her career...
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