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Well that's onejpproach, however unlikely
Here's 1 Way to Replace Navy Aircraft Carriers
Posted from nationalinterest.org
Shipbuilding
Strategy
Posted 6 y ago
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This reminds me of an article I read several years ago proposing that the Army purchase sand buggies mounting anti-tank missiles and machine guns. Given the fact that a swarm of them could be purchased for the price of just one modern tank, the author made a strong case. Imagine one tank be attacked by a swarm of 50 to 100 dune buggies with anti-tank missiles. However, I've never seen anyone do this. I also don't expect to see resurrected container ships mounting missiles and machine guns
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LTC Jason Mackay
CPT Jack Durish Libya did this in its war with Chad. So much so it was called the Toyota war. They took a Toyota pickup and mounted four HOT missiles and I believe mounted a .51 caliber in the bed.
Not saying it's a model to emulate, but there it is.
2ACR was all HMMWV mounted for a while in the early 1990s.
Not saying it's a model to emulate, but there it is.
2ACR was all HMMWV mounted for a while in the early 1990s.
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Not sure this is a great idea. I understand the leveraging of modular and containerized systems. I understand the remote systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Atlantic_Conveyor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Atlantic_Conveyor
SS Atlantic Conveyor - Wikipedia
Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War.
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LTC Jason Mackay
Sorry I stopped short. Just because all the pieces work great on other systems doesn't mean they work good together. Case in point: M60A2. They never got it to work right even though the hull was a completely reliable and known quantity. The main armament was already in another Armored system...debatable whether it was fully functioning in the field.
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/m60a2.htm
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/m60a2.htm
M60A2 Main Battle Tank | Military-Today.com
The M60A2 main battle tank is a variant of the M60, developed as a force multiplicator for units, operating the M60A1 MBTs. This vehicle was nicknamed Starship due to it's sophisticated technology.
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LTC Jason Mackay
Saying this would be ok, because LCS is a bad ship design and they are out there too seems like doubling down on a poor decision.
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I think there are many questions that need to be addressed, however, with technological advances I think this may be a viable idea. Same with AF use of drones, in the future because a drone can physiologically outfly a pilot. But do we want to take the humanity out of the cockpit? Not sure I would want someone 6,000 miles away backing up troops in a close quarters battlefield area. Not to mention the potential hacking threat.
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