yeah it is...i wonder if this means that the Marine Corps is basically giving the ADA mission to the Army and will rely on ships and the Air Group to provide defensive fires?
Good question. We've been ignoring air defense during this war. Honestly because it's not needed. At least nothing serious. Won't always be that way though. The Navy let its ASW expertise go away and is struggling to get it back in the face of the new generation of diesels. Air defense may be headed down the same way.
There may be a resurgence in ADA, but in a non-traditional way: C-RAM.
The Phalanx/Centurion 20mm C-RAM may supplant Avenger VSHORAD systems, and USMC SLAMRAAM is more than able to take on the rest. And it is of course fact that the US won't fight without air superiority.
C-RAM isn't a Marine Corps type piece of gear. Looks like it gets set up at a fixed base and left there. Get it on a tracked chassis or LAV-type chassis, then we're talking. We do need something besides the Avenger, otherwise you're missing that mid-layer of defense. The SLAMRAAM/CLAWS type weapons look good (all-weather to boot). Anything past that we should leave to our aircraft and the AEGIS ships if we're close to the water. Or the Army if they're around. And, of course we won't fight without air superiority. There's no excuse for us to not have it.
My Google-Fu is powerful this week.
ReplyDeleteyeah it is...i wonder if this means that the Marine Corps is basically giving the ADA mission to the Army and will rely on ships and the Air Group to provide defensive fires?
ReplyDeleteGood question. We've been ignoring air defense during this war. Honestly because it's not needed. At least nothing serious. Won't always be that way though.
ReplyDeleteThe Navy let its ASW expertise go away and is struggling to get it back in the face of the new generation of diesels.
Air defense may be headed down the same way.
There may be a resurgence in ADA, but in a non-traditional way: C-RAM.
ReplyDeleteThe Phalanx/Centurion 20mm C-RAM may supplant Avenger VSHORAD systems, and USMC SLAMRAAM is more than able to take on the rest. And it is of course fact that the US won't fight without air superiority.
the Marine Corps doesn't operate C-Ram or SLAMRAAM.
ReplyDeleteseems like the avenger is an adequate short range platform and the Patriot can handle the middle to long range fight.
C-RAM isn't a Marine Corps type piece of gear. Looks like it gets set up at a fixed base and left there. Get it on a tracked chassis or LAV-type chassis, then we're talking.
ReplyDeleteWe do need something besides the Avenger, otherwise you're missing that mid-layer of defense. The SLAMRAAM/CLAWS type weapons look good (all-weather to boot). Anything past that we should leave to our aircraft and the AEGIS ships if we're close to the water. Or the Army if they're around.
And, of course we won't fight without air superiority. There's no excuse for us to not have it.