#5 As far as littoral action goes, I still support the tried and true idea of having a lot of small, expendable vessels that use a larger littoral ship as a "mothership".
The boat equivalent to the Humvee. Modular boat sections that can be forward stored and quickly assembled, designed to carry only one or two systems and their ammo. With a crew of between half a dozen and a dozen men.
Think a PT-boat plus. Then send them out in swarms into the littoral area, to cover a lot more distance than the mothership could.
They can also act as a team. Say one or two are mounted with SAMs, another one is a UAV carrier, another can fire light artillery or mortars, a few for ASUB operations, etc. |
