Apr 28, 2020,10:56am EDT
How The Navy’s CMV-22B Osprey Helps Make Distributed Maritime Operations A Reality
Loren Thompson
The U.S. Navy is developing a new warfighting concept called Distributed Maritime Operations that calls for dispersing warships over vast areas and coordinating their operations via a secure communications grid.
The new warfighting approach is driven by emerging threats and enabled by emerging technologies. The most important threat is that posed in the Western Pacific by China, which may soon field naval forces close to home that rival those of the U.S. and its allies.
By scattering U.S. forces, the Navy and Marine Corps can increase their survivability while complicating the challenge Chinese forces face in defending themselves. Leveraging its resilient communications grid, the Navy can integrate the sensors and weapons on widely dispersed warships to attack China’s military from multiple axes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2020/04/28/how-the-navys-cmv-22b-osprey-helps-make-distributed-maritime-operations-a-reality/#5e418ab8615e
