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For other ships with the same name, see USS Bougainville.

Graphical depiction of USS Bougainville (LHA-8)
History
United States
NameBougainville
NamesakeBougainville Campaign[1]
Awarded30 June 2016[2]
BuilderHuntington Ingalls Industries[2][3]
Laid down14 March 2019[4]
Sponsored byEllyn Dunford
StatusUnder construction
General characteristics
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass-
Displacement44,971 long tons (45,693 t)
Length844 ft (257 m)
Beam106 ft (32 m)
Draft26 ft (7.9 m) (7.9 meters)
PropulsionTwo marine gas turbines, two shafts, 70,000 bhp (52,000 kW), two 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) auxiliary propulsion motors.
Speedover 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried
Complement
  • 65 officers, 994 enlisted
  • 1,687 Marines (plus 184 surge)
Sensors and
processing systems
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • AN/SLQ-32B(V)2
  • 2 × Mk53 NULKA decoy launchers[6]
Armament
Aircraft carried

USS Bougainville (LHA-8) is an Template:Sclass- currently under construction for the United States Navy.[7] It will be the second Navy ship to be named Bougainville.[8][1] Bougainville is being built by Huntington Ingalls Industries at its shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi[3] and is expected to be delivered to the U.S. Navy in 2024.[1]

Bougainville officially started fabrication on 16 October 2018[9].

Design

The design of Bougainville is based on USS Makin Island, itself an improved version of the Template:Sclass-. While Makin Island has a well deck, the earlier two Flight 0 America-class ships USS America and USS Tripoli were designed and built without a well deck to make space for aircraft and aviation fuel.[10] Bougainville will be the first Flight 1 America-class ship,[1] and as such will include a well deck.[2] The design of the Flight 1 America-class ships, including that of Bougainville, adopts a compromise, incorporating a slightly smaller aircraft hangar as well as smaller medical and other spaces to fit a small well deck for surface connector operations.[2][11] The island structure will also be modified to free up more room on the flight deck to accommodate maintenance of V-22s, compensating for some of the lost aircraft hangar space.[11]

Bougainville will be the first in her class built with a redesigned and stronger main deck; the earlier America-class vessels America and Tripoli each required retrofitting in order to handle the strain of daily Marine F-35B Lightning II STOVL operations.[12] In addition, Bougainville will incorporate the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) volume air search radar in lieu of the AN/SPS-48G air search radar in America and Tripoli.[5] The Template:Sclass-s starting with John F. Kennedy and the planned Template:Sclass-s will also have this radar.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Eckstein, Megan (9 November 2016). "Mabus Names LHA-8 After Bougainville Island Campaign in World War II". USNI News. U.S. Naval Institute. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Eckstein, Megan (30 June 2016). "Ingalls Wins LHA-8 Contract, NASSCO To Build 6 Fleet Oilers". USNI News. U.S. Naval Institute. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Huntington Ingalls to build new America-class amphibious ship LHA 8". NavalToday. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. ^ "Ingalls Shipbuilding Authenticates Keel of America-class Amphibious Warship Bougainville (LHA 8)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b LaGrone, Sam (22 August 2016). "Raytheon Awarded $92M Navy Contract for Future Carrier, Big Deck AESA Radars". USNI News. U.S. Naval Institute. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  6. ^ http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2008/pdf/navy/2008lha6.pdf
  7. ^ "Bougainville (LHA 8)". Naval Vessel Register. United States Navy. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  8. ^ "SECNAV names next Amphibious Assault Destroyer" (Press release). U.S. Department of Defense. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  9. ^ https://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com/releases/photo-release-huntington-ingalls-industries-starts-fabrication-of-amphibious-assault-ship-bougainville-lha-8
  10. ^ GAO-09-326SP 'Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs', U.S. Government Accountability Office, 30 March 2009
  11. ^ a b Freedberg, Sydney J. Jr. (3 October 2012). "Navy's Newest, LHA-6, A Dead End For Amphibious Ships?". Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  12. ^ LaGrone, Sam (22 March 2016). "USS America Back to Sea After Completing 10-Months of Deck Strengthening for F-35s". USNI News. U.S. Naval Institute. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  13. ^ "Navy C4ISR and Unmanned Systems". Sea Power 2016 Almanac. Navy League of the U.S. January 2016. p. 91.
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