 The vessel's cargo deck is designed to handle any vehicle in the US Army inventory and can carry up to 15 M1 Abrams main battle tanks or 82 ISO standard containers.The "Robert T. Kuroda" is the lead vessel of a new subclass of the "Frank S. Besson" class called LSV (MOD).The "Kuroda", named after Robert T. Kuroda, and its sister ship, the "Smalls", named after Robert Smalls, are generally similar to the rest of the class except that the ships are longer than the other ships of the class.