One of the warships that the US Navy showed off at Fleet Week in New York City in May was the USS Arlington, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship. And I got a chance to go aboard.

The amphibious lift capacity ... to standard warships of this class, Shipyard CEO Ilya Samarin told TASS on Wednesday. "Standard [large amphibious assault] ships displace about 6,000 tonnes ...