The following is the April 21, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Medium Landing Ship (LSM) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report The Navy’s Medium Landing ...

A notional concept design for a landing ship medium. ... The Congressional Research Service has estimated from Navy budget documents that the LSMs could cost between $100 to 150 million a hull, ...

Under the fiscal year 2024 budget, the Navy sought to purchase the first landing ship medium in fiscal year 2025 at a cost of $187.9 million, with a total of at least six LSMs purchased by fiscal ...

The Navy is relying on the combination of the annual defense budget and supplemental legislation to buy 19 new ships in 2026, ...

USNS Montford Point, the U.S. Navy’s first mobile landing platform, is moored against USNS Dahl, a Watson-class Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/ Roll-off ship, during a 2015 exercise. (Christopher G ...

China's scientific research ship "Tan Suo Yi Hao" conducts operations at an undisclosed location and date in waters. Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering ...