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Command ships serve as theflagships of the commander of afleet. They provide communications, office space, and accommodations for a fleet commander and their staff, and serve to coordinate fleet activities.
An auxiliary command ship features thecommand and control components prevalent on landing ships (command) and also features the capability to land troops and equipment. These forces will be slightly less than those on a pure landing ship due to the nature of the ship as a command vessel and hence will also house the assault commander, the flotilla commander or someone of similar status (generally ofNATOOF-7 orOF-8rank—such as amajor general orvice admiral).
Currently, theUnited States Navy operates two command ships,USS Blue Ridge andUSS Mount Whitney, both of the purpose-builtBlue Ridge class. Two command ships,USS La Salle andUSS Coronado were converted fromLanding Platform Docks (LPD); these ships weredecommissioned in March 2005 and December 2006 and sunk as targets in support of a fleettraining exercise on 11 April 2007 and as part of live-fire exerciseValiant Shield 2012, respectively.[1]
TheSoviet Union operated several space program command ships,Akademik Sergey Korolev,Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov,Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin, and theSoviet communications ship SSV-33Ural. These ships greatly extended the tracking range when the orbits ofcosmonauts and uncrewed missions were not within range of Soviet land-basedtracking stations.[2] Similar U.S. vessels were classified as Missile Range Instrumentation Ships (T-AGM).
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