New Marine Aircraft Need a New Amphibious Ship
New Marine Aircraft Need a New Amphibious Ship
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The Marine Corps has carefully plotted the future of its air combat element (ACE). This path began with a need to replace an aging fleet of aircraft and ended with the development of the most capable and advanced aircraft the Marine Corps has seen. The MV-22 Osprey and Short Take-Off Vertical Land (STOVL) Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will carry Marine Corps aviation well into the twenty-first century. Although these platforms will provide the Marine Corps with additional capabilities, the larger aircraft size will be a limiting factor when operating aboard current amphibious ships. The current amphibious ships, the LHA1 and LHD2, are not properly suited to support Osprey and JSF operations. In order to address this situation, a modified version of the LHD is set to replace the aging LHAs. However, the Dual Tram Line (DTL) ship design is the only ship design suitable to replace the LHA because it is the only ship that meets all Marine Corp's space and flexibility requirements for future operations at sea.
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New Marine Aircraft Need a New Amphibious Ship
2008
14 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aeronautics , Marine Engineering , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Marine corps aviation , Amphibious ships , Aging(Materials) , Tilt rotor aircraft , Naval architecture , Vertical takeoff aircraft , Fighter aircraft , Military operations , Ace(Air combat element) , Jsf(Joint strike fighter) , Stovl(Short take-off vertical land) , Mv-22 aircraft