Top Marine’s Force Changing Plans Prompt Talk Of Smaller Ships, F-35 Buy Changes
The Commandant of the Marine Corps has a vision for a new way of fighting future wars and making regular deployments abroad.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps has a vision for a new way of fighting future wars and making regular deployments abroad.
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.
If the Super Hornet hadn’t been built, Grumman’s next-gen Tomcat may have become a reality. We forensically recreated it in these awesome renderings. Behold, the Super Tomcat 21.