30.04.2021, 09:29
Hier zwei Artikel aus US Marine/ Marineinfanterie:
Hier wird die Überlegung angestellt Schnellboot/ Korvetten (wie z.B. Skjold) auf einem"Mutterschiff" ins Einsatzgebiet zu bringen und dort zu unterstützen:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedin...e-strategy
"....The U.S. Navy has long identified threats in the littorals and the need to fight within these close waters, but it still struggles with creating a capable fighting force that provides speed, lethality, and a deterrent. Expeditionary strike groups are back in vogue with the Navy–Marine Corps team; a new frigate may soon be on the horizon; and the littoral combat ships (LCSs) still are in search of a viable combat mission. These options, however, all involve large, expensive platforms and have been the focus of the surface fleet for too long. What the Navy–Marine Corps team needs is a complement to existing capital ships—fast-attacking ships that are strategic assets and can be deployed globally.....
Small missile boats don’t fit the typical ship profile to meet the needs of a maritime nation that projects power across the seven seas, but that is because the United States has lacked the imagination to employ them.
The solution to the naval littoral problem is merging sea basing with the Navy’s World War II and Cold War fast-attack concepts. Older dock landing ships, such as the USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) class, have a large well-deck designed for transporting Marine connectors (landing craft air cushioned [LCACs] and landing craft utility [LCUs]). Instead of connectors, why not load dock landing ships with two Skjold-class missile corvettes (currently used by the Norwegian Navy) or similar boats. .....
Corvette carriers could be of significant use in the South China Sea—where freedom of navigation is being threatened—as a counter to China’s growing blue-water navy and its fleet of Type 022 missile boats (Houbei class). Partner-nation island chains could be used as temporary bases from which to train, patrol, and ensure freedom of the seas, while the corvette carrier itself could be used to move, maintain, and refuel squadrons....
Transporting small combat boats to faraway theaters in a support ship is not a new concept. What is new is using the mother ship not only as the permanent base of operations, but as the means to transport them. These ships would be capable of launching the small boats independently or in mass, providing maintenance and berthing for the crews, and refueling and rearming the boats at sea. Already in the Navy’s inventory, expeditionary sea base ships could converted for use as corvette mother ships, but semisubmersible heavy-lift ships such as the Blue Marlin and Tern also are ideal for conversion. ..."
Im zweiten Artikel geht es um den Ersatz der Cyclone-Patrouillienboote durch Schnellboote einer modernisierten Art der 143A, eingesetzt für Escort- aber auch für offensive Aufgaben.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedin...german-one
"..The Navy needs new patrol coastal ships (PCs), but buying more of the Cyclone-class will not meet the requirement of a PC for today’s threat environment. With the already-extended service life of the Cyclone-class coming to an end between 2020 and 2025, the Navy should leverage the expertise of our NATO allies in coastal warfare and purchase a modified version of Germany’s Gepard-class (German for “cheetah”) PCs.
Enter the Gepard class. At 189 feet long, with an 8.5-foot draft and displacing 397 metric tons (a mere 61 tons more than a Cyclone), a Gepard is ten feet longer and draws just one foot deeper. In that size, however, it carries a 76-mm main gun, four Exocet antiship cruise missiles, a rolling-airframe missile (RAM) launcher for antiaircraft and antiship missile defense, electronic warfare capabilities, and two heavy machine guns. It has the firepower of a small frigate in the size of a PC. It also is equipped with a Link-11–capable communications suite, allowing it to build a shared tactical picture with other ships and aircraft. Modified and modernized, a U.S. “Cheetah” class would be able to do everything the Cyclones do—and also operate in a moderate-to-high threat environment against larger enemy surface combatants as part of a networked, combined-arms team.
The German Navy possesses tactical excellence at employing patrol craft in confined, littoral waters, providing a clear base on which to develop and refine quickly the doctrine necessary to incorporate Gepards into the U.S. Navy. The NATO Center of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (COE-CSW) is, not coincidentally, based in Kiel, Germany, and could host the U.S. Navy’s efforts to build and validate the doctrine for these new PCs. Working together also would improve allied navies’ integration with U.S. Navy doctrine development, helping to refine the distributed lethality concept...."
Hier wird die Überlegung angestellt Schnellboot/ Korvetten (wie z.B. Skjold) auf einem"Mutterschiff" ins Einsatzgebiet zu bringen und dort zu unterstützen:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedin...e-strategy
"....The U.S. Navy has long identified threats in the littorals and the need to fight within these close waters, but it still struggles with creating a capable fighting force that provides speed, lethality, and a deterrent. Expeditionary strike groups are back in vogue with the Navy–Marine Corps team; a new frigate may soon be on the horizon; and the littoral combat ships (LCSs) still are in search of a viable combat mission. These options, however, all involve large, expensive platforms and have been the focus of the surface fleet for too long. What the Navy–Marine Corps team needs is a complement to existing capital ships—fast-attacking ships that are strategic assets and can be deployed globally.....
Small missile boats don’t fit the typical ship profile to meet the needs of a maritime nation that projects power across the seven seas, but that is because the United States has lacked the imagination to employ them.
The solution to the naval littoral problem is merging sea basing with the Navy’s World War II and Cold War fast-attack concepts. Older dock landing ships, such as the USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) class, have a large well-deck designed for transporting Marine connectors (landing craft air cushioned [LCACs] and landing craft utility [LCUs]). Instead of connectors, why not load dock landing ships with two Skjold-class missile corvettes (currently used by the Norwegian Navy) or similar boats. .....
Corvette carriers could be of significant use in the South China Sea—where freedom of navigation is being threatened—as a counter to China’s growing blue-water navy and its fleet of Type 022 missile boats (Houbei class). Partner-nation island chains could be used as temporary bases from which to train, patrol, and ensure freedom of the seas, while the corvette carrier itself could be used to move, maintain, and refuel squadrons....
Transporting small combat boats to faraway theaters in a support ship is not a new concept. What is new is using the mother ship not only as the permanent base of operations, but as the means to transport them. These ships would be capable of launching the small boats independently or in mass, providing maintenance and berthing for the crews, and refueling and rearming the boats at sea. Already in the Navy’s inventory, expeditionary sea base ships could converted for use as corvette mother ships, but semisubmersible heavy-lift ships such as the Blue Marlin and Tern also are ideal for conversion. ..."
Im zweiten Artikel geht es um den Ersatz der Cyclone-Patrouillienboote durch Schnellboote einer modernisierten Art der 143A, eingesetzt für Escort- aber auch für offensive Aufgaben.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedin...german-one
"..The Navy needs new patrol coastal ships (PCs), but buying more of the Cyclone-class will not meet the requirement of a PC for today’s threat environment. With the already-extended service life of the Cyclone-class coming to an end between 2020 and 2025, the Navy should leverage the expertise of our NATO allies in coastal warfare and purchase a modified version of Germany’s Gepard-class (German for “cheetah”) PCs.
Enter the Gepard class. At 189 feet long, with an 8.5-foot draft and displacing 397 metric tons (a mere 61 tons more than a Cyclone), a Gepard is ten feet longer and draws just one foot deeper. In that size, however, it carries a 76-mm main gun, four Exocet antiship cruise missiles, a rolling-airframe missile (RAM) launcher for antiaircraft and antiship missile defense, electronic warfare capabilities, and two heavy machine guns. It has the firepower of a small frigate in the size of a PC. It also is equipped with a Link-11–capable communications suite, allowing it to build a shared tactical picture with other ships and aircraft. Modified and modernized, a U.S. “Cheetah” class would be able to do everything the Cyclones do—and also operate in a moderate-to-high threat environment against larger enemy surface combatants as part of a networked, combined-arms team.
The German Navy possesses tactical excellence at employing patrol craft in confined, littoral waters, providing a clear base on which to develop and refine quickly the doctrine necessary to incorporate Gepards into the U.S. Navy. The NATO Center of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (COE-CSW) is, not coincidentally, based in Kiel, Germany, and could host the U.S. Navy’s efforts to build and validate the doctrine for these new PCs. Working together also would improve allied navies’ integration with U.S. Navy doctrine development, helping to refine the distributed lethality concept...."