Military.com
As sailors and Marines are sailing in more contested waters, the blue-green team is getting creative about how to defend amphibious assault ships from enemy small boats and drones.
Members of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit were photographed sailing through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf this week with a Light Armored Vehicle on the flight deck…
…Maj. Gen. David Coffman, director of expeditionary warfare, said last year that Navy and Marine leaders were coming up with innovative ways to defend ships in contested areas. They’ve typically relied on aircraft, he said, but now they’re getting more creative to combat new threats.
“I can tell you I watched a MEU commander strap an LAV to the front of a flight deck because it had better sensors than the ship did to find small boats,” Coffman said during an event hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., last fall. “… The LAV guys will sit up there.” More
American ingenuity. God bless our military.
When it absolutely, positively, has to be DESTROYED overnight! 😁
More than one way to skin a raghead!
(Former Amphib sailor cudos!!!!!!)
They adapted, they overcame!
Now upgrade the assault ship with the same electronics found in the LAVs.
Air Power (Website) Posted a Pic of some F-15’s carrying cluster
Munitions (Rockeyes) Cruising the Gulf looking for some nonsense
from Iran…They can take out a football Field with one Bomb.
(Lotsa Bomblets inside…) We used to hang those on F4’s . Manual
said “If the Bomb breaks open during loading, do not attempt to
pick up the Bomblets” I was like no shit…I’ll be in the next
County….Still running !
Good God, these ships should have state of the art sensors to detect even a floating goat pussy. Someone did mention Oblowjob’s Navy. Need to fix it.
7th century barbarians are no match for The United States of America’s military personnel – the greatest 21st century military in existence.
Fill a cluster bomb full of pig parts. Drop it on a boat full of goat humping, shit for brains, Iranian rag heads. Get a video of them rootin through the blood and guts hoping to find what to them is a highly desirable part of a female hog. You’ll never see another boat load of those dumb shits again.
We should introduce a whole shitload of scumbags to God and let him work it out. Amen!
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
I have no idea why they don’t open fire as soon as those little attack boats are within range.
There is no way anyone else could circle and harass a U.S. Navy ship and not get smoked.
Endure
Adapt
Overcome
Hoo-Rah!
Typical Marines. Every other service has dump trucks full of money. Marines? Fiddy cents…..but they do have really cool welding rigs and some morally ambiguous non coms who can indeed find 60 feet of bridge in the middle of a war zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pMeb4ZSHh8
Semper Fidelis
or just
Semper Fi Marines!
Can’t wait until they can use the thing.
@99
While I agree wholeheartedly that nobody can match the US military, I also believe that the only thing more dangerous than crossing the US military is the belief that nothing can beat us.
Never drop your guard.
Agreed, Surge. Wisdom is key.
Sorry Sturge. Accidently gave you a new screen name.