Here’s Our Best Look Yet At The Navy’s New Laser Dazzler System
The Navy’s Optical Dazzling Interdictor, or ODIN, was photographed installed on the USS Stockdale during a replenishment in the Pacific.
The Navy’s Optical Dazzling Interdictor, or ODIN, was photographed installed on the USS Stockdale during a replenishment in the Pacific.
The bold vision of a USMC that is far less dependent on the lumbering “Gator Navy” comes with a sacrificial offering of the force’s most sacred cow. Under the Commandant’s plan, the big beach assault made possible by increasingly costly and complex amphibious assault ships will no longer be the focus and primary planning construct of the service.
New deployments would present a serious threat during any potential conflict and help China further assert its de facto claims in the region.