As defense budgets tighten with each passing year, the Navy is presently building or planning to build a small number of large and high-cost ships. The manufacturing cost and declining numbers of these vessels essentially makes every one of them a capital ship. In order to protect them from danger during future littoral missions, this paper will forward the proposal that a small amphibious landing craft the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) can be used as a more cost-effective alternative to close exposure to enemy attack. This paper will briefly trace the history of modern landing craft and will look at non- traditional missions for them. It will explore the range of operations currently required of Navy landing craft and examine ways to make more effective use of scarce assets in the areas the Navy/Marine Corps team is most likely to conduct future operations- the littorals.


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    Title :

    Landing Craft Utility as a Force Multiplier in the Littorals


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    Publication date :

    2001


    Size :

    76 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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