USS FORT LAUDERDALE
LPD 28
  
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Keel Laid: October 13, 2017
Christened: August 21, 2021
Commissioned: July 30, 2022

Builder: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, MS.
Propulsion system: 4 - Colt-Pielstick 2.5 STC diesel engines
Propellers: 2 - Inboard rotating (top) fixed pitch propellers
Length, overall: 684 feet (208.5 meters)
Beam: 105 feet (31.9 meters)
Draft: 23 feet (7.0 meters) 
Displacement: approx. 24.900 tons full load
Speed: ~22 knots
Crew: 383 Sailors and 3 Marines; Marine detachment: 650
Well deck capacity: two LCACs or one LCU; 14 Amphibious Assault Vehicles
Aviation: Launch or land two CH-53E Super Stallion or two MV-22 Osprey; 
or up to four AH-1Z or UH-1Y or MH-60 helicopters
Armament: 
 - 2 MK 31 Mod 0 RAM (Rolling Airframe Missile) Launchers
 - 2 MK 46 Mod 1 30mm Gun systems
 - 10 MK 26 Mod 18 .50 Cal Machine guns
Homeport: Norfolk, VA.