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Offline rangerrebew

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How the Marine Corps is testing a ‘narco-boat’ for resupply efforts
« on: September 09, 2024, 12:51:50 pm »
How the Marine Corps is testing a ‘narco-boat’ for resupply efforts
By Diana Stancy
 Wednesday, Sep 4, 2024
 
The U.S. Marine Corps is testing out an autonomous system inspired by a “narco-boat” to bolster resupply efforts, as the service focuses on island hopping and projecting power from land to sea, according to the head of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.

In addition to delivering two Naval Strike Missiles for the Corps’ anti-ship missile system, the autonomous low-profile vessel the Marine Corps is experimenting with also aims to better get critical supplies like food to forward deployed and distributed Marines, Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Simon Doran said at the Defense News Conference on Wednesday.


“Truth be told, this is just a narco-boat,” Doran said. “We stole the idea from friends down south. And so this is 55 feet long, completely autonomous. It’s able to go hundreds or thousands of miles. It’s able to carry weapon systems that we have that are new. … It can carry pretty much anything you want to put in it.”

https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/09/04/how-the-marine-corps-is-testing-a-narco-boat-for-resupply-efforts/
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Re: How the Marine Corps is testing a ‘narco-boat’ for resupply efforts
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2024, 12:53:21 pm »
Could this be ..... could this be creative thinking in the military? :yowsa:
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Re: How the Marine Corps is testing a ‘narco-boat’ for resupply efforts
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2024, 01:05:25 pm »
Shades of the Japanese use of its submarines to do supply runs to isolated island garrisons. The IJN lost a lot of I-boats that way, boats and trained crew.
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