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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

SynixMan

HKG Based Artificial Excrement Pilot
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They're quite popular by end users and relatively low overhead crew wise. Seems like a smart move for our constant low intensity conflicts.
 

nittany03

Recovering NFO. Herder of Programmers.
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Griz882

Frightening children with the Griz-O-Copter!
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How about 100? 100 is a nice number, rolls easily off the tongue.

 

Randy Daytona

Cold War Relic
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The road to 350 is now a road to 500, including all of the unmanned surface and undersea platforms.


SECDEF Esper Calls for 500-Ship Fleet by 2045, With 3 SSNs a Year and Light Carriers Supplementing CVNs

Thought this part was interesting:

"Second, Esper stated that nuclear-powered aircraft carriers would remain the most visible deterrence on the seas, but he said a new future air wing would have to be developed to increase their range and lethality, and that light carriers would have to supplement the Nimitz- and Ford-class supercarriers to help achieve greater day-to-day presence while preserving limited CVN readiness, which has been strained recently by overuse and backups at maintenance yards. Up to six light carriers, possibly based on the America-class amphibious assault ship design, would operate both instead of and alongside the CVNs."

Will be interesting to see if this means more big deck gators and/or how it affects the Marine Corps deployments if the big deck gators are going to be pressed into constant service as light carriers.
 

nittany03

Recovering NFO. Herder of Programmers.
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Still don’t see how CVLs are going to have any kind of bang for the buck without organic EA (I mean real EA like ALQ-99/ALQ-249, not that “MAGTF EW” bullshit) and organic AEW. Otherwise, you’d better hope you’re in range of CFACC assets, and that those reservists in the NALE fought tooth and nail to get you what you needed . . .

Otherwise it seems like 3/4 of the price to get half the capability.
 
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