当“超越地平线”登陆作战的曙光照亮21世纪的海岸线之际,紧随世界头号登陆作战强国——美国之后,欧洲老牌海军——不列颠皇家海军也急不可耐地推出了其追随铁杆老大美国海军、践行21世纪登陆作战新理念的闪亮新星——“海神之子”号、“堡垒”号两栖船坞登陆舰。英国皇家海军“新潮一派”两栖船坞登陆舰的1号舰L14“海神之子”号,早在2003年1月已正式服役;同级2号舰L15“堡垒”号,也已在2004年12月17日加入了皇家海军的两栖舰队。“海神之子”号、“堡垒”号两栖船坞登陆舰与L12“海洋”号两栖攻击舰(无坞舱的直升机母舰)、4艘海湾级通用登陆舰一起构成了21世纪初皇家海军两栖作战部队的主打力量,这对于提升英军的对外军事干预能力有着极其重要的战略意义。它们将与2010年前服役的两艘大型航母一起构成具有全维作战能力的两支特混远征舰队,随时准备赶赴世界上任 When the “beyond the horizon” landing light of the dawn of war lit up the 21st century coastline, followed by the world number one landing combat power - the United States, the European veteran navy - British Royal Navy also impatiently launched its follow the iron boss America The Navy, a brilliant new star practicing the new concept of landing operations in the 21st century - “Son of Poseidon”, “Fortress” amphibious dock landing ship. The L14 “Son of Poseidon”, the first ship of the “New Wave” amphibious dock landing craft of the Royal Navy, was officially in service as early as January 2003; the L15 “Fort”, the second-class ship of the same level, was also launched in December 2004 17th joined the Royal Navy’s amphibious fleet. “Son of Poseidon”, “Fortress” amphibious dock landing ship and L12 “Sea” amphibious assault ship (no helicopter mother ship carrier), 4 bay class common landing craft together constitute the beginning of the 21st century, the Royal Naval Amphibious Operations The main strength of the armed forces, which enhances the British military’s ability to foreign military intervention has an extremely important strategic significance. Together with the two large aircraft carriers serving before 2010, they will be equipped with two special expeditionary fleets of full-scale combat capabilities ready to go to the world