Note: Movie making is much more difficult than I thought. The issue isn't putting it together but rather in getting the information out that you want to convey with the format that you're given with the pre-packaged "movie makers" ... especially if you have a face for radio and a voice for the backwoods. This was play time. We'll see how it goes in the future. More to come....hopefully.
Great start. You might toy with the text visibility, at least for these eyes.
ReplyDeletenoted! i definitely need to get this right but we all start somewhere...thanks bro!
DeleteI still don't understand how it can take so long to pick one and start fielding it. All of the options are off the shelf. Do a 9 month shoot out with all the competitors and have it in service a year after that.
Deletei have no proof but the whole thing was designed to slow walk the ACV while at the same time giving Marines the idea that they were serious about a replacement. if HQMC had there way, i believe that they would push this buy out to 2030 and get the air wing every bell and whistle they could. that was the Amos plan at least.
DeleteI still don't like the idea of the ACV being a wheeled vehicle. I think a tracked vehicle like the EFV would be much better.
ReplyDeletethat is my big worry. ACV 1.1 could easily morph into the vehicle that will be used for the next 30 years. we have no visibility on whether wheels actually give the same mobility as tracks...only the word of PEO Land that it does. considering there track record their word just ain't good enough.
DeleteWhat they are proposing for the ACV 1.1 right now would be a good replacement for the LAV-25 but as a replacement for the AAV it has me worried.
DeleteWhat's your mission? If you have to bring 25 puking Marines through the surf zone do you want to do it in 4 vehicles or 2? Because that's going to set the number of LCVP you have to have in your well deck which is what really matters.
DeleteMyself, the very notion of swimming a land vehicle in ocean is IQ-60 moron level STUPIDITY.
_If You Must_ come across the water, do it with a single car ferry/swamp boat (the original 'Landing Craft'). Modern ones are small, possibly stackable, can plane, carry a surprising load and do 30+knots.
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Put 1-2 small vehicles on them and multiply not just the number of boats in the well deck but the _number of beach heads_ which you can come to from a single offshore launch point. Minimizing the number of dead or walking Marines when they blow that LCAC with a platoony load of vehicles clean out of the water.
The sneakier you can get in, the more divided the defenses will be in tackling your SPOD seizure or whatever. Not just in terms of shoreline frontage they must thin themselves to defend but also at the objective itself. Because you can pincer in _behind_ the target, moving from inland, which is traditionally where ports and the like are least well defended.
What this means is that you dedicate the Corps to moving fast ashore and fast once ashore, using armored reconnaissance units to push a bubble of owned space around them and then the very lightest possible (Deuce if you have to) personnel transports to mount the actual assault force.
You do not need 17-25 ton APCs! Because you don't want to take 6-9 men into harms way, bottled up in a singleshot, ATGM or ORM or or or mazcat disguised as an OD City Bus.
Look at the Russians in Chechnya. Look at the Iraq experience with shots from overpasses and tall buildings. Look at the Israeli experience in 2006. Losing Merkava to Kornet fired from upslope.
Look at the Nammer and GCV that has resulted. THAT is what modern IFV has degraded itself too in the attempt to make shooters safe in the battle taxis.
Dare I suggest you instead use light armor to form a screen. Use UAVs to provide top-down cue to threats moving up and refuse the screen weapons (including NLOS like Nemo) into alignment. Blowing the crap out of the enemy force before they threaten your infantry.
Roll your objective force up behind them. And THEN assault.
With deceptive maneuver, obscurant laydown (mass projector, Coyote like), CAS and select vertical envelopment by lightweight, fast, choppers (Not Hueys!) putting down individual sections and squads onto high points, leading the mainforce into the city with secure, interpositional, lead overwatch.
But for pities sake, stop pretending busses can swim. At best, they dog paddle at 4-10 knots and depending on cross currents, that's a Sherman DD waiting to happen-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFzsqU-Ti0
At worst, they are range practice for coastal AShM, Guided Mortars, FOG-M, and ATGW of all flavors, even RCL and ATR as these death traps come waddling up out of the white water. This isn't Normandy. It's not Saipan or Okinawa. ICD = Guided Shots. Every other infantryman may have a LAW or equivalent (AT-4, Carl Gustav, RPG) slung over his back. EFP Mines may be mobile and come out to greet you on the beach.
And when you give the enemy anything from 10-20 engagement opportunities as you come paddlewheel steamering in from 10nm offshore, you deserve to be the one delivering the telegram:
"Dear Mr./Mrs. X, your Marine died like a bitch because his procurement command is still living the dream of WWII in the Pacific."
Guh. When will The Corps wake up and remember what Boyd told you? The war is beyond the white water. Think past the beach.