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2nd Bn., 11th Marines becomes first Marine unit to fire NMESIS missiles

U.S. Marines with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, employ a Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, June 27-29, 2023. The unmanned NMESIS supports Force Design 2030 by allowing a small crew of Marines...
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Marines Activate First Tomahawk Battery - USNI News

The Marine Corps stood up its first-ever Tomahawk cruise missile battery at Camp Pendleton, Calif., last week. Alpha Battery, which falls under the 11th Marine Regiment, is the first of three Long-Range Missile (LMSL) batteries that the service plans to procure starting in FY 2024.The Long-Range...
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bobbymike said:
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Marines Activate First Tomahawk Battery - USNI News

The Marine Corps stood up its first-ever Tomahawk cruise missile battery at Camp Pendleton, Calif., last week. Alpha Battery, which falls under the 11th Marine Regiment, is the first of three Long-Range Missile (LMSL) batteries that the service plans to procure starting in FY 2024.The Long-Range...
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I swear I replied to this already... Is that a single missile launcher unit on the back of the JLTV?
 
jsport said:
Mk.41 VLS for launching Tomahawk cruise missiles on a JLTV.View attachment 705278
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I know these are officially just for Tomahawk, but image the mess a few of these carrying SM6 with a datalink for launch on remote could cause to incoming large aircraft. Scoot right up to the forward edge of battle, launcher would fire blind, and CEC takes over the guidance.

Could start to put cruise missile carriers, rather than just the weapons in credible range for ground based interception.
 
bobthemonkey said:
I know these are officially just for Tomahawk, but image the mess a few of these carrying SM6 with a datalink for launch on remote could cause to incoming large aircraft. Scoot right up to the forward edge of battle, launcher would fire blind, and CEC takes over the guidance.

Could start to put cruise missile carriers, rather than just the weapons in credible range for ground based interception.
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Interesting idea, though I’m not sure the vehicle could survive a mk72 booster ignition. It would make for an interesting remotely deployed SAM trap and I believe SM-6s have been guided by F-35s in USN experiments. If nothing else the GATOR radar might be combined. But I think the USM is also buying the Mk70 launcher that is the basis for the the Army MRC, which is a better fit for the capability even though it’s a lot, lot larger.
 
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The US Air Force has unconventional plans to win a war in the Asia-Pacific

In a time where Russia and China are investing in missile capabilities that threaten American air bases, how can the U.S. ensure it will be able to get its warplanes off the ground?
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The answer — which the Air Force calls Agile Combat Employment — calls for the service to be able to launch, recover and maintain planes away from its main air bases and instead at unorthodox locations like partner nations’ military airfields or civilian airports.

A chance for true jointness betwwen the USN and USAF.

Specifically, the large, geographically dispersed terrain of the Asia-Pacific region generates unique challenges, said Maj. Gen. Brian Killough, deputy commander of Pacific Air Forces. “We’ve got to respond to that requirement to move everything by either air or ship across the theater” he said in a Jan. 29 interview. “
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US military is scouting more Philippine bases for shared access, admiral says

The US is looking for more locations, Adm. John Aquilino said in the Philippines alongside that country’s armed forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner.
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Sunbic, Clarke, or the Batanes would be huge moves almost certain to provoke China. I’d be surprised if Marcos (I can’t believe that’s a thing again) would go that far.
 
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Sunbic, Clarke, or the Batanes would be huge moves almost certain to provoke China. I’d be surprised if Marcos (I can’t believe that’s a thing again) would go that far.
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Subic Bay is probably happening. Possibly more like the presence in Singapore than an actual US Naval Base, but it's going to be available.

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U.S. military poised to return to Subic Bay, counter China's presence

The U.S. military will likely return to Subic Bay 30 years after relinquishing what was once their largest military base in Asia due to concerns over China's increasing maritime assertiveness, a top official of the local body overseeing the free port zone said.
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Sunbic, Clarke, or the Batanes would be huge moves almost certain to provoke China. I’d be surprised if Marcos (I can’t believe that’s a thing again) would go that far.
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When the choice is between:
1) doing nothing and watching (armed) Chinese fishing boats strip-mine your country's food supply via drift nets in your EEZ​
OR​
2) letting the Americans use your military bases and listening to China complain about it,​
what are you going to do?
 
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When the choice is between:
1) doing nothing and watching (armed) Chinese fishing boats strip-mine your country's food supply via drift nets in your EEZ​
OR​
2) letting the Americans use your military bases and listening to China complain about it,​
what are you going to do?
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Hey, I'm all for it, but it would be quite a change from the PI's policies even before Duterte.
 
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Subic Bay is probably happening. Possibly more like the presence in Singapore than an actual US Naval Base, but it's going to be available.

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U.S. military poised to return to Subic Bay, counter China's presence

The U.S. military will likely return to Subic Bay 30 years after relinquishing what was once their largest military base in Asia due to concerns over China's increasing maritime assertiveness, a top official of the local body overseeing the free port zone said.
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I actually think even a minor presence in the Batanes is a lot more interesting in this context. That's a hell of a roadblock even if all you could get there was an MLR. Even a small pre-existing US presence would make taking the place in a surprise attack not only more difficult but inherently an attack on US forces.
 
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Hey, I'm all for it, but it would be quite a change from the PI's policies even before Duterte.
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Yup, it would be a pretty significant change, but my question reflects the strategic calculus that I believe the PI are looking at.
 
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US Marine Corps begins developing smaller pre-positioning ship

Marines want a smaller alternative to the Large, Medium-speed Roll-on/Roll-off ships of today to better sustain distributed operations in the 2030s.
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Gonna require more crews that way, but IIRC Heinlein was talking about that in Starship Troopers with the Mobile Infantry preferring small platoon transports for flexibility and the Navy preferring huge regimental transports because the two needed basically the same number of crew.
 
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Gen Z Marine lays out some ideas for fixing military recruitment

Some people think of Gen Z as the “everyone-gets-a-trophy generation,” 2nd Lt. Matthew Weiss said. But that’s not how he sees it.
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Marine Corps Leaders Struggle with How to Train Female Infantry Officers Amid Worries About Standards

In 2018, a Marine general who heads the service's training command wrote about his concern that the "pursuit of ensuring fair and equitable opportunity" had allowed a female Marine candidate demonstrating "dangerously poor performance" to continue a key course.
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