The Israeli Navy says it has received the second of two new landing craft, and a short while ago the vessel docked at the Haifa Naval Base.
The US-built INS Komemiyut is the Navy’s second landing craft, after the INS Nahshon, which was received last year.
The vessel, which weighs 2,500 tons and is approximately 95 meters in length and 20 meters wide, made a lengthy trip to Israel from the Pascagoula shipyard in Mississippi.
Landing craft are primarily used to transport troops and equipment across the sea and deploy them on the shore during an amphibious assault.
The Israeli Navy used such vessels since its inception in 1948 and until 1993, when the last of the aging landing crafts were decommissioned, with the military assessing at the time that it had no use for newer models.
The procurement of new landing crafts for the Israeli Navy began some five years ago.
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