Defense News: US agencies can't figure out the number and type of landing craft to be built

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Defense News: US agencies can't figure out the number and type of landing craft to be built

According to the American edition of Defense News, confusion has arisen in the United States regarding the study of requirements for amphibious assault ships between the Department of the Navy, the Pentagon, the administration and the US Congress.

This spring, the Navy and the Marine Corps (MCC) told lawmakers they were close to preparing an analysis on the number and types of amphibious assault ships needed to meet operational requirements. Then Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the Senate that a report on this issue would be published in the next few weeks.



Without waiting for a response, Senators J. Tim Kaine and Roger Wicker sent a letter to the Navy on November 15, demanding an explanation for the lack of results from the landing craft study, which had been promised back in the spring.

The Navy explained that the report was not sent to Capitol Hill due to the intervention of the US Department of Defense, where they decided to carefully study the document. In addition, they added that for full readiness, the report must also be coordinated with the White House. According to US Navy spokeswoman Gabriela Dimapi, the report on the landing craft will be in Congress in early January.

Defense News writes, citing Pentagon sources, that the delay in the report to Congress, which was already prepared in the spring by the Department of the Navy, is due to the confrontation between it and the Pentagon over this report.

According to the head of the Department of the Navy Carlos del Toro, whenever it is necessary to prepare a report with financial implications, it must go through a thorough review process.

In addition, as the newspaper notes, Congress often interferes in the plans of the Navy Department in terms of the number of ships, which usually advocates reducing their number. Thus, the Marine Corps had previously stated the need for 38 landing ships, but then was forced to agree to 33 ships. And this year, the Corps has reduced that requirement to 31 - 10 wide-deck landing craft and 21 smaller amphibious transport ships.

According to Defense News, the US Navy plans to further reduce the number of landing craft to 24.

The publication also says that in order to avoid such confusion in the future, lawmakers want to state in the 2023 defense budget bill that only the commander of the Marine Corps is responsible for reporting to Congress regarding information on landing craft.
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  1. Sniper Rank
    Sniper
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    9 December 2022 19: 56
    We would have their problems .. and ours to them. Full, hungry will not understand.
    1. Bingo Rank
      Bingo
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      9 December 2022 20: 21
      Not sure. As I understand it, the ears of this problem are growing from an attempt to deprive Trump of his personal, presidential army. The ILC is not subordinate to Congress - only to the president, so they began to cut him in every way, deprive tanks, and cut heavy vehicles with airplanes, then they were preformatted in disposable kamikazes, with the launch of anti-ship missiles from the islands without the possibility of evacuation, now the most important thing - transport.
      There, in Matrasia, now three armies are marching wall to wall - the presidential, state (Congress) and governor's - Nazigads. And there, at any moment, it can become sharply not funny - did you know that in 2014 the governor of Texas announced mobilization "to prevent the invasion of the US army" - quote? Obama decided to carry out maneuvers there, to rattle weapons - so the governor, in response, put the state under arms. What for such problems as they have, to imagine that people in Tatarstan were mobilized to prevent the invasion of Russia ...
      1. TermNachTer Rank
        TermNachTer
        0
        10 December 2022 00: 05
        ILC - have always been extreme, under any president. The Congress doesn't like it very much when some "mutes" go past it.
        1. 28st region Rank
          28st region
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          10 December 2022 05: 14
          So almost all wars began with the introduction of the ILC. They are not subordinate to Congress, personally the president. He first introduces the ILC, a conflict flares up and the Congress is forced to support its foot soldiers and gives permission for the use of the army.
  2. Buyan Rank
    Buyan
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    9 December 2022 20: 04
    Sawing Shura, sawing .... what can I say ... wassat
  3. Fangaro Rank
    Fangaro
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    9 December 2022 20: 54
    In the US, everything is idealized. And the solution is very simple. If there should be four types of landing craft.
    The height and weight of the paratroopers.
    From mimicry to macrovessels.
  4. tralflot1832 Rank
    tralflot1832
    -1
    9 December 2022 21: 06
    Maybe there were problems with the landing sites from these UDCs?
  5. Doccor18 Rank
    Doccor18
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    9 December 2022 23: 16
    ... the US Navy plans to further reduce the number of landing ships to 24.

    And how are they going to confront China with such a number ..?
    At the expense of the "partners" they gathered to leave, oh, and this path is thorny ...
    1. solar Rank
      solar
      0
      10 December 2022 02: 49
      Do you think they are going to land troops in China? He will be lost in the crowd of Chinese ...
      1. Doccor18 Rank
        Doccor18
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        10 December 2022 06: 33
        Quote from solar
        Do you think they are going to land troops in China?

        If we consider bulk islands in the South China Sea as China, then yes, we have gathered. Yes, they gathered so seriously that they even shook up the entire structure of the ILC for this matter, and even ordered a series of new KFORs ...


        Quote from solar
        He will be lost in the crowd of Chinese ...

        A very good joke, if it were not so serious.
  6. Sasha Koblov Rank
    Sasha Koblov
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    10 December 2022 18: 23
    Who were they going to capture with their landing craft?

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