High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USS America (LHA-6) will be the first of the America-class amphibious assault ships for the U.S. Navy, and she will be the fourth American warship to bear this name. The America-class will replace the last of the Tarawa-class amphibious assault ships. Based upon the USS Makin Island (LHD-8) design, the USS America will be a gas-turbine powered warship capable of carrying a Marine Expeditionary Brigade with the capacity for carrying many Marine helicopters, V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, and F-35B V/STOL Joint Strike Fighters. This warship is due to be delivered to the Navy in 2012. At a displacement of 45,000 tons, and carrying a complement of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, she could serve in the role of a small aircraft carrier, as demonstrated by Landing Helicopter Dock operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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