NUMAZU BEACH, Japan — A trial by the Marine Corps of an experimental landing ship ended recently with ... moved gear like this,” he said of the stern landing effort, which involved the vessel ...

One expert said the ship shown in the video is a decommissioned Type 074 landing vessel being attacked ... swimming their way up to the ship's stern — where critical components are often ...

These aren’t like the troop landing ships one sees in World War II movies ... in trucks and tanks rolling off bridges protruding more than 100 meters from sleek barges extending stern to stern a mile ...