USS Fallujah

	Sister ship USS America
History
United States
Name	Fallujah
Namesake	The first and second battle of Fallujah
Awarded	27 October 2022
Builder	Huntington Ingalls Industries
Laid down	20 September 2023
Sponsored by	Donna Berger
Identification	Hull number: LHA-9
General characteristics
Class and type	America-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement	44,971 long tons (45,693 t)
Length	844 ft (257 m)
Beam	106 ft (32 m)
Draft	26 ft (7.9 m) (7.9 meters)
Propulsion	Two marine gas turbines, two shafts, 70,000 bhp (52,000 kW), two 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) auxiliary propulsion motors.
Speed	Over 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Boats & landing ; craft carried	4 Landing Craft Air Cushion or; 1 Landing Craft Utility;
Complement	65 officers, 994 enlisted; 1,687 Marines (plus 184 surge);
Sensors and ; processing systems	AN/SPQ-9B fire control; AN/SPY-6(V)2 EASR airsearch radar;
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	AN/SLQ-32B(V)2; 2× Mk53 Nulka decoy launchers;
Armament	2× Rolling Airframe Missile launchers; 2× Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile launchers; 2× 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts; 7× twin .50 BMG 12.7mm machine guns;
Aircraft carried	MV-22B Osprey; F-35B Lightning II; CH-53K King Stallion; UH-1Y Venom; AH-1Z Viper; MH-60S Knighthawk;

USS Fallujah (LHA-9) will be an America-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy and the first ship to bear this name to commemorate the first and second battles at Fallujah during the Iraq War in 2004. On 13 December 2022, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the name in a press release.

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