Dave Majumdar, National Interest: U.S. Navy's Plans for a Huge Ballistic Missile Defense Ship
The U.S. Navy has been in discussions with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls about the possibility of building a missile defense variant of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock (LPD-17). The new vessel could eventually be equipped with new radars, railguns and lasers.
The massive 25,000-ton troop carrier has the size and weight margins for the mission, according to industry officials. “You can put a lot of additional weight on the ship and you can put … some modern technologies like ballistic missile defense radars that are very heavy,” Huntington Ingalls vice president Brian Cuccias told reporters at the Surface Navy Association symposium this week, according to National Defense Magazine.
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Update: Self Defense? US Mulls Behemoth Ballistic Missile Ship (Sputnik).
WNU Editor: While building a missile defense variant of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock is feasible .... especially since the existing design of the ship is known and proven .... I suspect that much of these "extra add-ons" is going to make such ships super-expensive.
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