ATLANTIC OCEAN — Sailors, assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), celebrated an important milestone this week when F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, assigned ...
The Wasp¬-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) is set to begin a modernization program at Norfolk Naval ...
The USS Iwo Jima will head to BAE Systems' Norfolk shipyard this year to receive upgrades to fully support F-35B operations.
The end of the tunnel is now in sight for the amphibious assault ships to transition to F-35B operations as the final AV-8B ...
The USS Wasp (CV-7)entered service in 1940. It was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier and was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean at the onset of America's engagement in World War II. While supporting ...
NAPLES, Italy — Sailors from the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp visited family members aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, ahead of the aircraft carrier’s imminent return to the U.S. after nearly ...
BAE Systems has won two U.S. Navy contracts worth about $222.6 million combined to provide maintenance, repair and modernization support services for an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer ...
The Wasp-class is a U.S. Navy-operated class of landing helicopter, or LHD, amphibious assault ships. Some would even call it a mini aircraft carrier of sorts. Essentially, the Wasp is an upgraded ...