The U.S. Navy has ordered the builder of its Landing Craft Utility 1700 program to stop work and moved to terminate the contract, the shipbuilder Swiftships told Defense News, following years of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Austal USA posted on its Facebook page that Friday, August 22, it launched its first Landing Craft Utility vessel. Here is part of the post: Last Friday, Austal USA successfully ...

YOKOHAMA NORTH DOCK, Japan — Japan Ground Self-Defense Force leaders toured a U.S. Army landing craft utility vessel here Wednesday as part of a familiarization event hosted by the 10th Support Group.

Austal USA earlier this month celebrated the start of construction on the first of three LCU 1710 Landing Craft Utility vessels for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Mobile, Ala. shipyard. Austal USA, a ...

(Tribune News Service) — Austal USA has received a $91 million contract to build three landing craft for the U.S. Navy, adding to a catalog of work lined up for the shipbuilder’s new steel line. The ...

U.S. Sailors with Landing Craft, Utility 1662 with Assault Craft Unit 2, prepares to launch from the well deck of San Antonio ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The U.S. Navy awarded Austal USA a $91,535,551 contract to build three Landing Craft Utility 1700 class craft, with an option for nine more boats, Austal announced Wednesday in a ...

The Dutch navy has started the MLU of its fleet of five LCUs, which were built in the late 1990s. (Derek Fox) The first of five landing craft utility (LCU) Mk IX vessels operated by the Royal ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA was awarded a $91,535,551 fixed-price incentive and firm-fixed-price type modification to definitize a previously awarded contract for the detail design and construction of ...

The first of five Dutch navy landing craft utility (LCU) Mk IX vessels to undergo its MLU, L 9525 , is launched at De Haas Shipyards in Rotterdam on 9 January. (Dutch MoD) The first modernised Royal ...

This computer-generated image shows Damen’s LST 100 design, which Australia has selected for its future Landing Craft Heavy. (ADF) CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Navies across the Asia-Pacific region are ...