Marines, Navy Both Considering Something Like an Offshore Support Vessel to Supplement Amphibs

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Marines, Navy Both Considering Something Like an Offshore Support Vessel to Supplement Amphibs
By: Megan Eckstein
September 20, 2019 1:09 PM


MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO – As the Navy and the Marine Corps narrow in on what their future amphibious operations might look like, they are considering acquiring something akin to an Offshore Support Vessel to help Marines distribute around a littoral environment in a future fight.

New Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger turned heads when his Commandant’s Planning Guidance said “the global options for amphibs include many more options than simply LHAs, LPDs, and LSDs” and that, on account of a growing anti-access/area-denial threat environment, “visions of a massed naval armada nine nautical miles off-shore in the South China Sea preparing to launch the landing force in swarms of ACVs, LCUs, and LCACs are impractical and unreasonable.”

Since the document was released in July, those in the military and industry have speculated what that could mean.

https://news.usni.org/2019/09/20/marines-navy-both-considering-something-like-an-offshore-support-vessel-to-supplement-amphibs