A rendering of the Project 09851 nuclear submarine Khabarovsk used with permission. H I Sutton Image
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A briefing slide of the alleged Status-6 nuclear torpedo captured from Russian television via the BBC
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A computer generated image of a Type-93T or Shang-class nuclear attack submarine
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New Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov in late 2014.
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Tom Clancy, 66, died at a Baltimore hosptial, former Clancy researcher and co-author John Gresham told USNI News on Wednesday.
In the event of the loss of a British carrier in the 1982 Falklands War, the U.S. was prepared to loan a helicopter carrier to the U.K. Royal Navy.
Collected are the entries from the 1982/1983 Combat Fleets of the World of the British carriers and the ship the U.S. had prepared to loan the Royal Navy.
USS Iwo Jima (LPH 2)
![USS Iwo Jima underway in 1984[U.S. Naval Institute Archives]](https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/webUSS-Iwo-Jima-LPH-2-1984.jpeg)
USS Iwo Jima underway in 1984
[U.S. Naval Institute Archives]
Remarks: LPH 9 conducted V/STOL suitability trials during 1972 and for
several years thereafter operated up to twelve AV-8A Harrier. The
ships have also aeted as carriers for RH-53 minesweeping helicopters.
One folding side elevator forward, to port; one to starboard, aft of
the island; 70-m hangar. Excellent medical facilities (300 beds). LPH
9 has an ASCAC (Air-Surface Classification and Analysis Center).
LPH 12, to a slightly different design, carries two LCVP in davits.
Two Mk 63 gunfire control being removed. Two 20-m Vulcan/Phalanx AA to
be added.
