{"id":697,"date":"2023-03-29T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:34:41","slug":"u-s-navy-launches-usns-cody-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Launches USNS Cody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Capable of transporting 600 tons of personnel and cargo up to 1,200 nautical miles at an average speed of 35 knots, each EPF vessel includes a flight deck to support day and night aircraft launch and recovery operations.\u00a0 The ships are also capable of interfacing with roll-on\/roll-off discharge facilities, and can load and off-load heavy vehicles such as a fully combat-loaded Abrams Main Battle Tank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s launch marks another successful milestone for the EPF 14, and it demonstrates the strength of the Navy-Austal USA partnership,\u201d said Strategic and Theater Sealift Program Manager, Program Executive Office, Ships, Tim Roberts. \u201cEPFs provide capability and capacity for a variety of missions, when and where our fleet needs support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Launching an EPF is a multi-step process, conducted over two full days.\u00a0 The ship is moved from the Modular Manufacturing Facility where it was constructed to a docking barge, and then transported to a floating dry dock. Submerging the dry dock into the water then launches the ship to float on its own.<\/p>\n<p>EPFs operate in shallow waterways. These versatile, non-combatant transport ships are used to quickly transport troops, military vehicles, and equipment needed to support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overseas contingency operations<\/li>\n<li>Humanitarian assistance<\/li>\n<li>Disaster relief<\/li>\n<li>Special operations forces efforts<\/li>\n<li>Theater security cooperation activities<\/li>\n<li>Emerging joint sea-basing concepts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As one of the Defense Department&#8217;s largest acquisition organizations, Program Executive Office, Ships is responsible for executing the development and procurement of all destroyers, amphibious ships, special mission and support ships, and special warfare craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capable of transporting 600 tons of personnel and cargo up to 1,200 nautical miles at an average speed of 35 knots, each EPF vessel includes a flight deck to support day and night aircraft launch and recovery operations.\u00a0 The ships are also capable of interfacing with roll-on\/roll-off discharge facilities, and can load and off-load heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}