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Army Chinook Lands on Navy Amphib in Joint Pacific War Game
A Chinook landing on the USS Tripoli suggests that Army-Navy networking and joint command and control is improving
August 7, 2024
By Kris Osborn, President, Warrior
It might not be possible to overstate the growing significance of US military multi-domain operations in the Pacific in light of the evolving threat environment, given that areas such as the South China Sea and Philippine coastal and island areas would greatly need sea-air-land operational combat capability to protect itself from any kind of Chinese aggression or incursion.
These kinds of sea-air-land “island hopping” contingencies are likely figuring prominently in the minds of Pentagon planners because, while multi-domain Army-Navy operations in the Pacific have long been an emphasis for the Pentagon, the need is clearly taking on more urgency in light of China’s continued harassment of Philippine vessels and provocations in the South China Sea. These kinds of strategic dynamics and threat contingencies are certain to provide the rationale and the conceptual foundation for current Army-Navy multi-domain operations in the Pacific wherein an Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter lands on the flight deck of the US Navy’s America-class USS Tripoli Amphibious Assault Ship. Sure enough, the Navy published a photo of the large CH-47 Chinook workhorse combat cargo helicopter descending onto the deck of the amphib, an indication that indeed command and control, concepts of operation and networking are evolving more fully with joint Army-Navy maritime warfare operations.
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