Amphibious transport dock

An amphibious transport dock, also called a landing platform dock, is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. Several navies operate this kind of ship. The ships are generally designed to transport troops into a war zone by sea, primarily using landing craft, although invariably they also have the capability to operate transport helicopters.
Amphibious transport docks perform the mission of amphibious transports, amphibious cargo ships, and the older dock landing ships by incorporating both a flight deck and a well deck that can be ballasted and deballasted to support landing craft or amphibious vehicles. The main difference between LSDs and LPDs is that while both have helicopter landing decks, the LPD also has hangar facilities for protection and maintenance. In the United States Navy, the newer class of LPD has succeeded the older classes of LSDs, and both the Navy and United States Marine Corps are looking to the LPD to be the basis of their new LX(R) program to replace their LSDs.

LPD classes

Country/Territory	Class	In		Length	Beam	Draft		Note	Image
	Kalaat Béni Abbès	1	2015				9,000	Improved San Giorgio-class built in Italy.
	Choules	1	2011				16,160	Ex-British Largs Bay sold to Australian Navy in 2011, renamed Choules.
	Bahia	1	2016				12,000	Ex-French Siroco sold to Brazil Navy in 2015, renamed Bahia.
	Sargento Aldea	1	2011				12,000	Ex-French Foudre sold to Chile Navy in 2011, renamed Sargento Aldea.
	Type 071 (Yuzhao)	8	2007				25,000
	Jalashwa	1	2007				16,600	Ex-USS Trenton sold to the Indian Navy in 2007, renamed INS Jalashwa.
		5	2007				11,394	Designed by Daesun & Engineering Co., first two units were built in South Korea.
		3	1987				7,650 7,980
		3	1998				14,000
		1	2019				11,394	UMS Moattama, built in South Korea.
		2	1997				12,750 16,800
		2	2018				11,394	Built in Peru.
		4	2016				11,583	Subclass of the Makassar-class built in Indonesia.
		1	fitting out				9,000	Improved San Giorgio-class built in Italy.
		4	2000				8,500
		2	1998				13,815
		1	2021				10,600
	Angthong	1	2012				8,500	Based on the Endurance-class, built in Singapore.
	Chang	1	2023				22,000	Export version of the Chinese Type 071 amphibious transport dock.
		2	2003				19,560
		3	2007				16,160
		12	2006				25,300