Accession Number:
AD1078150
Title:
Supporting the fight ashore
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Corporate Author:
NAVAL WAR COLLEGE NEWPORT RI NEWPORT United States
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
2018-04-30
Pagination or Media Count:
17.0
Abstract:
Over the past several decades, the USN has come up with multiple programs aimed at meeting USMC Naval Surface Fire Support NSFS requirements.These programs have not been fielded. At the same time, the USMC requirements have increased. This paper explores how this situation came to be,existing options, and proposes a new low cost NSFS alternative.
Descriptors:
- air defense
- cruise missiles
- destroyers
- military organizations
- moving targets
- navies (foreign)
- projectiles
- artillery
- combat operations
- flight decks
- maintenance
- marine transportation
- ammunition
- littoral combat ships
- munitions
- hypervelocity projectiles
- short range ballistic missiles
- fire support
- navy
- warfare