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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

comments about EFV at confederat yankee

Frankly, these were not well thought out posts. I would agree that the Over-the-Horizon concept with the EFV needs to be scrapped along with some other issues, but years ago the plans of using AAV's against heavily defended beaches were dropped. There are many situations were a combined force with an initial wave of AAV's and grunts landing from ship is feasible and required as well a force multiplier. The reality is there is nothing in our arsenal, excluding ICBMs that does not run a risk of a great loss of life to our people. War like Medicine is not an exact science, since both are not without risks. By the way, most amphibious ships are not "carrier" sized. Even the LHA is not carrier size unless your thinking of a WWII carrier.

Respectfully,
Ron Landers GySgt(ret)
Former AAV Plt Sgt

Posted by YatYas at May 18, 2010 10:50 PM Ron: That is probably correct nevertheless the new efv is still a quantum leap ahead of the old aav, lest you have a dangerous gap in amphibious capability we should buy the efv. Scrapping this new design puts marines in an old system that I have rowed faster in a rowboat.

Your idea of Super Ospreys. Again with the gap in capability. We must have no less than the threat of amphibous operations , but also the reminder that no battle of that size is done by the marines alone. Every aspect must be under control at all times and yes if the marines ever do face those kinds of operations again there would probably be heavy losses. I like the idea of a skytrain like heavy lift vehicle that can carry 50 tons or so with speeds and altitude like the CH 47. You could then take like a fully combat loaded stryker with troops beyond the beach plus it would take up less deck space than an Osprey so you could haul more of them on any AWS.

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