What is "amphibious assault"

Usage examples of "amphibious assault".

Navy was already looking at the logistics of rotating current capitol ships (meaning Aircraft Carriers, the big Amphibious Assault ships and the AEGIS ships) into dry docks for retrofitting the turrets and weapons systems.

Enough amphibious assault ships for one planned amphibious assault were left, but they were to be removed by 15 January 1944, according to the directive of the Combined Chiefs of Staff.

Four of them would fit in the well deck of the new Amphibious Assault ships that were just beginning to come off their production lines.

When it reached the loading chief's stand the lead Dragon--the company commander's--pulled out of its position and turned to face the remaining air-cushioned, armored, amphibious assault vehicles as they passed by.

I'm going to forget every part of it after `we are making an amphibious assault into a major city with a major seaport and spaceport and we're doing it at night.

The American amphibious assault force had sailed with a full Marine division.

Navy is called on to perform, an amphibious assault is without question the most complex, requiring exhaustive planning, perfect timing, and a degree of coordination and cooperation between forces at sea, on shore, and in the air more exacting than in any other arena of modern warfare.

The United States also had eight of its Sea Control Carriers in the area, four of them the older Tarawa or Wasp class amphibious assault ships that were operating in a dual mode, and four of them the new Hampton Roads Class Sea ships which had been designed and built from the keel up for the sea control mission.

Nassau, the MEF's amphibious assault ship, would provide a mobile landing field for the SEAL helos, but it would take a couple of days yet to get them into position off the Horn of Africa.

Although it had only been a few hours ago that they had repulsed the amphibious assault, it seemed to him like years.

Aide claimed it was the largest amphibious assault in all of human history to that day.

We've looked at a helicopter insertion, maybe even trying an amphibious assault and racing up this road.

The general idea is to launch an amphibious assault force, backed by air cover, from Gulf Coast campsite-launch sites.

Flown back to the amphibious assault ship's flight deck, they'd been greeted before they even climbed out of the helo by a team of hospital corpsmen and a ship's doctor who'd bundled Garcia, strapped into a Stokes wire-frame stretcher, off to sick bay.

In one drop, most of a FIST's infantry battalion could be delivered to the surface to make an amphibious assault.