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Boeing Offers Additional F/A-18 Sale to U.S. Navy
Exactly - but notice in the offical world of Navy Ops Analysis they used
the Enterprise - (1) still trying not to go head on with the "law" that all big carriers will be nuclear even when any such littoral ship would be banned from most allied harbors and sea ports because it is a nuclear ship and (2) trying to find budget and a home for the Enterprise so there can be another CVN-21 put into production. Hence an argument could be made about that option also. You see the Navy concept as explained still has the Navy leading the show, the Marine LHA(R) scenario is a Marine one with the Navy driving the buses and making chow. Can you see the infighting in the literature just by who is writing it. Now go to the Marine Corps Gazette and you would wonder if there was even a Navy. "Henry J Cobb" wrote in message ... Flashnews wrote: So we could modernize the JFK and make it a conventional assault aviation ship, take on new F/A-18E/F and G's, and modernize Marine aviations with the generals digging in their heals - its possible and may be done in the next administration. The savings are enormous and we need the cash now and we need to look to the advanced threats down the road a bit and we need to deal with COIN which we have put off for 5 years with this intramural sparring - if the JFK is not sunk like the Oriskany, then there is always a chance and the Kitty hawk could follow, one per fleet. This also doubles MV-22 production and you can see the vulnerability still exists low to the ground but the Iraq and Afghan wars have all but ended the helicopter as a combat attack platform - we need a new platform a cross between the A-10 and the Apache - a Blitz Fighter as some call it - and guess what - the simple fact that nothing could directly escort the MV-22 right now is paramount to the fact that the planning was selectively biased against doing what is needed for COIN. Like this? http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/0...fleet_070422w/ Among ideas it proposes are converting the aging aircraft carrier Enterprise into an “afloat forward staging base” for special operations forces with embarked joint air wings. He also proposed converting four more Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines into multimission guided missile subs, for a force of eight SSGNs. -HJC |
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