Not having gone too far down the FD 2030 rabbit hole, that aspect was always what made me most uneasy. Structuring the force around a particular mission set, rather than starting with the basics and building from there, seems very limiting.
Not having gone too far down the FD 2030 rabbit hole, that aspect was always what made me most uneasy. Structuring the force around a particular mission set, rather than starting with the basics and building from there, seems very limiting.
Understandable in context of being forced to choose, from what I have read of FD30 they arenтАЩt going overboard on anything and are keeping tubes, they got rid of tanks as the USMC wasnтАЩt using them- too heavy to deploy practically and didnтАЩt use over 2-3 decades.
The sea lift capacity issues or lack thereof are more troubling-
Not having gone too far down the FD 2030 rabbit hole, that aspect was always what made me most uneasy. Structuring the force around a particular mission set, rather than starting with the basics and building from there, seems very limiting.
Understandable in context of being forced to choose, from what I have read of FD30 they arenтАЩt going overboard on anything and are keeping tubes, they got rid of tanks as the USMC wasnтАЩt using them- too heavy to deploy practically and didnтАЩt use over 2-3 decades.
The sea lift capacity issues or lack thereof are more troubling-