14.03.2022, 14:13
Zitat:Op-Ed: U.S. Marine Corps Needs A New Light Attack Planehttps://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...ack-plane/
As the United States Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030 sheds Legacy weapons systems in favor of modernization to meet peer nation challenges, the U.S. Marines are pressed to substitute new systems to remedy the firepower shortfall from the divestments in Marine aviation, tanks, tube artillery, and other units.
With a desire to operate and engage in Anti-Submarine Warfare, the littorals, long-range Close Air Support, and the fact that the jamming arena has sat empty since the retirement of the Marines’ EA-6B “Prowler” Electronic Warfare jets, the Marines should seriously look into acquiring a two-seater light attack plane that is slow, low cost, and multifunctional. The Tactical Air Vehicle (TAV™) WASP™ by Icarus Aerospace fits this postulated multi-mission requirement well with a design and performance that allows the Marines to cross vast distances with better situational awareness, armament, capabilities, options, flexibility and endurance than many other Light Attack Plane designs. What’s more, the TAV WASP is a “clean slate design concept” that can be modified and customized to Marine Corps needs as it is still on the drawing board. [...]
The Marines will really need a plane that can fulfill their “Wish list” of desires for Close Air Support (CAS), Close Air Defense, Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), Electronic Warfare/Jamming, C4ISR, Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW), deep penetration strike, loiter, counter-insurgency operations (COIN), drone control and operations, long-range precision ordnance carrier, Forward Air Control, tanking, Area Denial, Special Operations coverage, and other duties that their fighter/bomber F-18C/Ds and stealthy F-35Bs cannot achieve.
Schneemann