In the United States intend to use the coastal ship USS Kansas City for the transfer of marines across the Pacific Ocean

The Kansas City Coastal Combat Ship (LCS-22), which operates off the coast of California, was created to search for sea mines, combat enemy submarines and other missions. Now the United States intends to use the coastal ship USS Kansas City for the transfer of marines across the Pacific Ocean.

It is reported news USNI News portal, owned by the United States Naval Institute.

Thus, the ship ceases to be an exclusively coastal combat unit.

As the US naval forces enter a new era of strategic rivalry with China in tight financial pressures, they may be able to connect their coastal warships to the US Marine Corps expeditionary operations in the Pacific Islands.

The United States Navy is considering using the Independence-class ships heading to the opposite end of the Pacific to move Marines between islands and archipelagos. The Marines are supposed to be stationed aboard ships like the Kansas City, heading for the islands. There they could establish bases on which anti-ship missile launchers will be deployed.

Earlier it was reported that the warships of the coastal zone of the US Navy are equipped with high-precision weapons long-range. It is assumed that they should be a worthy competitor to Russian corvettes.

Comments

[Blackbeard]

tents will be set up on the helipad

[Cat Alexandrovich]

No, although they write that they will be placed on board, but there is not much space there. Rather, the barge will be converted into a floating hotel. And in tow across the Pacific!

[d1975]

Well, the states cannot live peacefully. They always need an enemy. And the dollar is really a candy wrapper, supported by wars and aggressive policies. Their entire economy is primarily about defense. Why put so much money into the army. The military-industrial complex really has a lobby, and this is the real master of the country. Is China threatening? Funny !

[rotmistr60]

intend to use the coastal ship USS Kansas City for the transfer of marines across the Pacific Ocean

Is this ship adapted to accommodate the Marine Corps, and even with equipment, or will this require re-equipment?

to move marines between islands and archipelagos

For some reason, I remembered the footage of the chronicle of the 2nd MV when American soldiers also moved between the islands and not always successfully. There was even such a fact when the Americans, having landed on one of the islands for several days, strenuously "stormed" (captured) it without even assuming that the Japanese left it even before the Americans landed.

[boris epstein]

Kiska island. In the absence of an enemy, they managed to lose a destroyer and about 300 marines
and from the destroyer crew.

[Sasha from Uralmash]

Preparing brushwood for the future fire, away from their borders! Poseidon in their mouth and the flag in Shopu!

[Evil troll]

Three wise men in one basin ...

[Alien From]

They seemed to be going to write them off ...

[prior]

American naval forces are entering a new era of strategic rivalry ... in a tight financial environment

More constrained financial conditions are hard to imagine .....

[tralflot1832]

Abaldet, the crew of Kansas City is 41 people + 35 places for seconded (the Americans will not be stuffed into a barrel like herring) and what they will capture with such a landing, for each landing on an aircraft carrier, so they have 6-7 of them on the go. The Chinese laugh and think right away San Diego out of fear to be demolished or mocked? Let the Americans bring their "carcasses" closer. Something has lost the memory of the Americans. The Koreans were shocked, the Vietnamese were even more shocked, and the Chinese can be shocked at the very least. As the Russians say, God loves the Trinity.

[lucul]

It is assumed that they should be a worthy competitor to Russian corvettes.

And what about the air defense? Can we resist our calibers? )))

[Cowbra]

You gotta stick them somewhere! otherwise they have built, and they continue to build, so they are not only gold in price and in operating costs, but they are also absolutely not suitable for anything! Why 6 pieces of new ones have already been written off (at least, according to the plan - they should), they continued to build even more new ones (the contract has already been signed and the loot has been sawn), but it does not work to show that at least one trough is suitable for something. Well, let's at least raft across the ocean ...
PiSi: Heirdahl came out cheaper. And the troughs are of one class:

[voyaka uh]

They were further reinforced with 8 Norwegian anti-ship missiles (2 launchers in front of the superstructure).
But the trump card is three helicopters (one of them is unmanned). And the speed is 45 knots.
With the right tactics, naval combat can be of use.

[Cowbra]

But the trouble is that the Norwegians do not sell them missiles. One of them was shot two years ago during an exercise - and they are still swimming with an empty cell - there is nothing to shut up

[Svetlana]

Independence-class coastal combat ship USS Kansas City (LCS-22)
41 main crew (9 officers, 32 privates) plus up to 35 mission crew members.
The cruising range is 8 km at a speed of 000 km / h. The maximum speed is 37 km / h.
Motto: United we stand, divided we fall.
Construction of the ship was sponsored by the wife of Admiral Philip S. Davidson, Tracy Davidson.
Kansas City entered service on June 20, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kansas_City_(LCS-22)

Between the islands of the Pacific Ocean, 35 crew members of the mission can be transferred faster with the help of three Bell V-22 Osprey tiltrotors. See https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_V-22_Osprey

[Momento]

do they fly on ordinary commercial planes like? rented from American companies. there is even some kind of law on this topic.

[TermNachTer]

Use the ship as a barge for transporting l / s, somehow not feng shui))))

[Kerensky]

Is Konyukhov acting weird again?

[Lonely loner]

They cannot walk at a speed of 45 knots for any length of time.

[spech]

Quote: rotmistr60

For some reason, I remembered the footage of the chronicle of the 2nd MV when American soldiers also moved between the islands and not always successfully. There was even such a fact when the Americans, having landed on one of the islands for several days, strenuously "stormed" (captured) it without even assuming that the Japanese left it even before the Americans landed.

Operation "Cottage"
https://topwar.ru/30266-operaciya-kottedzh-samyy-kureznyy-amerikanskiy-proval-v-istorii.html

[exo]

Tokyo Express, American performance. True, it is not very clear why.

[boris epstein]

"The United States intends to use the coastal ship USS Kansas City to transport marines across the Pacific."
If I understand correctly, coastal ships have a much shorter cruising range than ocean-going ships and cannot withstand ocean storms.

[Spkrdctr]

This is pure nonsense. The ship could accommodate perhaps 28 Marines and their equipment. Obviously this is a joke. It is also silly to show "Ospreys" with spetsnaz soldiers jumping out of them. The main purpose of the Osprey is vertical landing and takeoff, like a helicopter. Marines do not skydive in combat. I just can't believe some of the stupid stories laid out, probably, by American journalists? Someone who knows nothing about military operations put this story together.

[Svetlana]

Quote: Spkrdctr

stupid to show "Ospreys" with spetsnaz soldiers jumping out of them.

Situations are possible when it is urgently and as quickly as possible to transfer special forces from one Pacific island (on which there are no long airstrips) to another island. In this situation, landing Osprey will take precious minutes (because for landing he needs to go down, slow down, turn the propellers, and all this increases the mission time)
In this case, almost the only option is to use Osprey with a parachute landing. For such cases, the Americans are still considering options for an urgent transfer of troops using intercontinental ballistic missiles, but this will be more expensive than parachute troops from Osprey.
In addition to Osprey, you can also use another VTOL aircraft, of the "flying wing" type, which does not have rotary propellers, but has rotary nozzles and 2 coaxial counter-rotating lifting screws (like in the KA-52 helicopter) driven by exhaust from the rotary nozzles of turbojet engines, the overall dimensions of such a VTOL aircraft are 20 * 25 * 3.7 meters.

But in comparison with the KA-52 helicopter, the delivery speed of the assault force in such a VTOL aircraft will be significantly higher.