Compass Points - Missile Duplication
Marines need to focus on more than missiles.
January 13, 2025
While the US Marines have been focused for nearly five years on building a string of missile units off the coast of China, there are still zero operational deployed Marine missile units.
As recently as one year ago, the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab leased the civilian HOS Resolution to prepare for the construction of the first dozen of three dozen Landing Ship Medium (LSM).
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The 254-foot Resolution, under contract with the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, pulled into Camp Pendleton’s Del Mar boat basin on Thursday to begin a series of experiments that the Marine Corps expects will help shape operational concepts and design for the Navy’s Landing Ship Medium. Resolution will also join the Army’s Project Convergence Capstone 3 experimentation that’s underway with the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity at Camp Pendleton.
The offshore support vessel is a stern landing vessel that’s a prototype for the future LSM, officials said, and it’s one of three planned contracted OSVs that will shape those decisions for the LSM as a platform in a contested logistics environment.
-- USNI News
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