USS BATAAN (LHD-5) is the fifth Multi-Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship in the WASP class.

General Characteristics:
Keel Laid: 1994
Launched: March 15, 1996
Commissioned: September 20, 1997
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding , West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion system: two boilers, two geared turbines
Propellers: two
Aircraft elevators: two
Length: 840 feet (256 meters)
Flight Deck Width: 140 feet (42.6 meters)
Beam: 106 feet (32,.3 meters)
Draft: 26,5 feet (8.1 meters)
Displacement: approx. 40,500 tons full load
Speed: 23 knots

Aircraft: (depends upon mission)
6 AV-8B Harrier attack planes
4 AH-1W Super Cobra attack helis
12 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
9 CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters
4 UH-1N Huey helicopters
OR
6 AV-8B Harrier attack planes
12 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
9 CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters

Assault configuration:
42 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

Sea Control configuration:
20 AV-8B Harrier attack planes
6 ASW helicopters

Well deck capacity: three LCAC or two LCU or six LCM-8 or 40 Amphibious Assault Vessels (AAV) (normal) or 61 AAVs (stowed)

Crew: Ship: 73 officers, 1,009 enlisted

Marine Detachment: 1,894

Armament: two Mk-29 NATO Sea Sparrow launchers, two 20mm Phalanx CIWS, eight Mk-33 .50 cal. machine guns, two Rolling Airframe Missile Systems

Cost: approx. $731 million

Homeport: Norfolk, VA