The Marine Corps Is Launching Rockets From Ships
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The Marine Corps is using rocket launchers in amphibious assaults even before a beachhead is carved out, firing them from the flight decks of Navy ships. They would use the HIMARS rocket system that can strike targets at up to 43 miles, softening up the defenses so the assault force has a better time of it.
Artillery howitzers and rocket launchers need patches of flat, firm land to do their work. This constraint prevents Marine artillery from contributing to the most critical phases of an amphibious operation, the pre-landing bombardment and actual landing.
Now, as the Corps shifts back to its bread-and-butter amphibious warfare missions, the Marines are looking to use new weapons they've acquired in the post-9/11 period to support landing operations. One new application is using their M142 HIMARS mobile rocket artillery systems to launch precision-guided rockets at distant enemy targets from the helicopter flight decks of amphibious ships. The HIMARS takes the proven 227-millimeter rocket system from the Army's tracked MLRS system and puts it on a 5-ton truck, providing a firing platform for up to six rockets (or one jumbo-sized ATACMS rocket) at a time.
The Marines have been pushing for years for increased naval gunfire support to assist in Marine landings, and the shipbound HIMARS solution could go a long way toward filling that role. Marine HIMARS units could respond directly to fire support missions ordered by other Marines, keeping the entire process within a single branch or even battalion-sized Marine Expeditionary Unit and using established artillery fires procedures.
Cyan and the US forces have another capability to to strike Maroon and Vermillia from afar. Coalition forces have a robust capability of attacking PAV and Maroonian troops through the air with the new aviation machine being dubbed the F-35B JSF.
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