Any military nuts here?

@Longpatrol The ships also carry landing craft in an aft dock.

@quitwhendone ah yeah true

@Longpatrol
From the Wiki article:
[quote] The ship will be equipped with heavy and medium helicopters (EH101 and NH90 respectively) and Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II aircraft. [b]It will have a floodable well deck below the hangar level able to accommodate amphibious landing vessels such as LCM (new Cantieri Navali Vittoria LCM23 type), LCAC, and newer L-CAT (Landing Catamaran) vessels. It also can carry Ariete MBT, B1 Centauro tank destroyers, and up to 600 soldiers. [/b]Its base will be in Taranto. [/quote]

Hmm, even if it’s slated to carry the F35? I’m confused because where I come from we have an LHD as well but it carries like 3 helicopters max.@Human1000

@Longpatrol no fixed wing planes, my man.

@Longpatrol Its named by its use. The US calls its similar ships amphibious assault ships, like the USS Bonhomme Richard, USS Iwo Jima and USS America.

@SW-User @quitwhendone meant to also carry F 35’s. I guess principally my confusion arises from thinking that ships were classified by three things: tonnage, role, complement.