Essex assault LHD-2 "steel alligator," said. Length of 840 feet, 106 feet wide, the U.S. Navy amphibious assault landing ship WASP class ships, launched in 1991, the official service in the coming year, the warship was carrying six of the AV-8 hound-type vertical-attack aircraft and other helicopters, while transport, attack and landing combat capability. Essex in addition to over 250 meters of the flight deck, cabin also contains a number of landing craft and land-based military vehicles, in order to landing operations.
In addition it is an amphibious assault ship Essex, but also has advanced medical facilities include four operating theaters, two accident and emergency departments, a 14-bed intensive care unit, the Navy's maritime hospital.
WASP class frigates enhanced command, communications and control capabilities, so it can be used as the amphibious command ship command and control of a brigade-sized amphibious assault.
