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The Indian Ministry of Defence issued a request for information intending to procure four Landing Platform Docks (LPDs) for the Indian Navy. The tender is restricted to Indian shipyards, however those that respond may do so with a foreign partner and design.
A landing helicopter dock is a kind of amphibious assault warship capable of deploying troops and even tanks using helicopters and small landing craft stored inside its deck.. At the time of the 2004 tsunami, the Indian Navy's largest ships for amphibious assault were tank landing ships, which are significantly smaller and less versatile than LPDs Indian Navy ships carried supplies to Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Maldives, however the tsunami response showed a long-standing deficiency.
India lacked amphibious assault ships that were optimal for ferrying men and material in the event of natural disasters.'INS Jalashwa' (formerly USS Trenton) is currently the only large amphibious ship in the Indian Navy fleet,Inducted ,in 2007