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(puttster) wrote:

Chad Irby wrote in message
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In article ,
(puttster) wrote:

Then let me ask why the Marines need the V/Stol capability. I cannot
get a good picture of a mission where the marines would need 400+ of
them with all the support for them but still not have a decent runway!

Why are you limiting the situation to needing 400+ at once?

The situation is more like "we need a dozen for this small brushfire war
in a place where there are no good airstrips," or we need to put a small
landing force in at this area, and the bad guys have a few planes, so we
need a little fighter cover from the LHDs."

Well that was my question, if the biggest mission that con be
realiatically conjures is a dozen, why order 400+?

Because it's 2004, and there's a good chance we'll have more than one of
those missions going on at a time sometime along the way, not to mention
training, depot maintenance, unit rotations, and the like.

There are a lot of places in the world that don't have good airstrips
and aren't close enough to coasts to deal with from carriers.

We also have the nasty contingency of "what to do if we lose some (or
all or) our carriers?"

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