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The US Marines’ China-fighting, island hopping Q Ship plan is in trouble
But the strategy requires a new ship – an easy-to-hide medium landing ship that’s cheap enough for the US Navy to buy quickly and in large numbers. But the Medium Landing Ship – or LSM in ...
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Marines work with new ships, interceptors and drone platforms
The Marine Corps seeks to purchase eight new ships over the next five years, in the current budget proposal, to move littoral regiments around islands in the Pacific as it aims to counter the ...
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Marines, sailors, and USS NEVADA pivotal in Iwo Jima battle
Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...
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The Navy Is Too Important To Be Left to the Admirals
This would not be the Navy’s first miscalculation. The decision to buy the misnamed Landing Ship Medium (LSM) to support the Marine Corps' Force Design/Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (FD ...
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Navy’s ‘Risk Averse’ Culture Hampering Shipbuilding, Ship Repair, Says Panel to HASC
“On the Landing Ship Medium (LSM) where five concept design studies were awarded to industry in 2021 with the Navy requesting industry use a parent design, with evolving modifications through a ...
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Indian Navy hands over Guldar ship to MTDC for underwater museum
a landing ship tank (medium), to Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation Limited (MTDC) for conversion as an underwater museum and artificial reef. The de-commissioned ship was on Friday ...