Talk:Amphibious assault ship

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Can you make an article titled LSL (Amphibious Assault Ship)? I made a disambiguation page for LSL...

[edit] Needs a lot of work

This article is very confusing and is in need of a lot of work. The fundamental problem seems to be that there is no single definition of what an "Amphibious assault ship" actually is. For instance, while the opening paragraph states that such ships "grossly resembl[e] aircraft carriers" and seems to refer to ships capable of operating large numbers of troop carrying helicopters, the body of the article includes ships which cannot operate helicopters and only land their embarked troops through beaching. The article also contains a very strong US and British bias. --Nick Dowling 08:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I think we should partly merge it with landing craft (aren't landing craft only smallest type of amphibious assault ships? Or are they wider term?) Pibwl ←« 19:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Operation Atilla?

I believe Operation Atilla can also be considered as a large scale amphibious assault, therefore I added it to the first paragraph. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.254.132.8 (talk) 19:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC).