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I found this story very interesting, and as a 71 year old Retired Navy Veteran it drove home that I am old! My first ship of many in my 23 years of Naval service was the USS Kearsarge CVS-33, and reported aboard her in 1968, she was the third to bear the Kearsarge name. The first was a Civil war Sloop-of-War famous for sinking the Confederate ship Alabama, the second was a Battleship, BB-5, Commissioned in 1900 and was part of the Great White Fleet. My Kearsarge was an old wooden flight deck Essex Class Carrier who's keel was laid during WWII on 1 March 1944, and launched 5 May 1945. She took me to Vietnam in 1968 and I was on the decommissioning crew in 1971 at Long Beach Naval Base. My Kearsarge was the namesake predecessor to the 4th to carry the name USS Kearsarge LHD-3 in this story. CW5 Jack Cardwell CAPT Michael Toleno LTC Stephen F.

Scary, Carriers using drones rather than destroyers for a screening force? CW5 Jack Cardwell

Yes, “we” are using Drones. Now, for we’uns to accept the changes in our military.

Thank you, my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for making us aware that the "amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge's recent transit through the Suez Canal, in which LMADIS sat strapped to its deck, providing a much-needed albeit asymmetric defense for the multi-billion dollar technology packed warship."

"he threat of small commercially available drones looms large over the U.S. military. After years of dragging its feet, the Battle of Mosul finally awoke the Pentagon as to just how complex and vexing the threat from these systems is. Now, ever more elaborate anti-drone defense concepts are hitting the field under rushed procurement concepts. One of those is the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS), a highly mobile anti-drone solution that rides on a pair of Polaris MRZR buggies, and now the Corps is getting creative about how they put this capability to use.
A great example of this is the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge's recent transit through the Suez Canal, in which LMADIS sat strapped to its deck, providing a much-needed albeit asymmetric defense for the multi-billion dollar technology packed warship."

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