They make good boats for Reservist/Rangers up there and could expand summer operating areas. If we are going to continue the fiddle with amphibious ops, a couple of these on each coast, would greatly increase that training value. Put the RWS in storage and replace it with some commercial optics and FLIRs. to keep the boat easily maintained by commercial shipyards/marine techs.
I quite like these things. I'd need a sailor to let me know how viable they are for most of our coastal conditions, but I could see them very effective along the Pacific coast for sure and probably along much of the Atlantic.
I quite like these things. I'd need a sailor to let me know how viable they are for most of our coastal conditions, but I could see them very effective along the Pacific coast for sure and probably along much of the Atlantic.
It's range looks a little limited which might mean that some interesting logistics arrangements/support vessels etc.
I'm trying to get my head around whether for us it's a solution looking for a problem to solve.
Sure, but what reasonably foreseeable threat are we deploying it against?
No. I mean what are we contemplating? Chinese weather stations setting up on our shores? Mexican drug cartel advance bases? Taliban revenge suicide bombers landing on our shores? Gun smuggling gangs from Detroit? Rogue Amish from Cleveland bringing illegal cheese across Lake Erie? Cigarette smugglers across the St Lawrence? (The last one is actually real but do you want to involve the navy/army?)
No. I mean what are we contemplating? Chinese weather stations setting up on our shores? Mexican drug cartel advance bases? Taliban revenge suicide bombers landing on our shores? Gun smuggling gangs from Detroit? Rogue Amish from Cleveland bringing illegal cheese across Lake Erie? Cigarette smugglers across the St Lawrence? (The last one is actually real but do you want to involve the navy/army?)
I can't see a realistic threat that we need to have marine raiding forces to counter.
These make a lot of sense for Sweden, where there are 270 000 islands in off Stockholm and in the straight very close to Russia's entrance to the Baltic. They patrol them fairly aggressively, like that one time a Russian sub grounded there and they claimed salvage rights, and basically got in a full war footing until the Russians pulled up. Their whole force seems to be designed to very quickly roll out, and none of the Scandianivians mess around. I think it is Norway that has a standing order to attack any unidentified sub in their territorial waters, and the Finns are just itching for it.I quite like these things. I'd need a sailor to let me know how viable they are for most of our coastal conditions, but I could see them very effective along the Pacific coast for sure and probably along much of the Atlantic.
It's range looks a little limited which might mean that some interesting logistics arrangements/support vessels etc.
I'm trying to get my head around whether for us it's a solution looking for a problem to solve.
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