【英文】美国军力评估报告：海军陆战队（25页）

英文研究报告 2021年11月05日 06:04 管理员

The Corps continues to search for improvements to its MV-22B Osprey, most recently by testing a version of an electronic warfare radar jamming pod that it uses on other aircraft.28 In the absence of conventional pylons on which weapons and sensors can be mounted, new capabilities have to be reconfifigured to fifit inside the aircraft or mounted on the aircraft fuselage. Notably, the Corps has moved aggressively to implement aviation-related actions speci- fified or implied by FD 2030. In May, it disestablished HMLA-367, a light-attack helicopter squadron in Hawaii, sending its still relatively new attack and utility helicopters to Davis– Monthan Airbase in Arizona where they will be placed in the “bone yard” for possible use in the future. The 27 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters and 26 UH-1Y Venom utility helicopters that were decommissioned represented approximately one-fififth of the Marine Corps’ inventory of such aircraft.

The Marines have also started divestiture of three MV-22 squadrons, an additional light-attack helicopter squadron, and nearly three heavy-lift squadrons.30 Amphibious Ships. Amphibious ships, although driven by the Corps’ articulation of what it needs to execute its operational concepts, remain a Navy responsibility. A trio of documents describe the rationale for and nature of the Marine Corps’ thinking about how it plans to contribute to the projection of naval power in highly contested environments such as that found in the Indo-Pacifific region should the U.S. fifind itself at war with China. l In 2017, the Corps and the U.S. Navy jointly released Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), in which the services presented general ideas about how to conduct naval operations against a very capable enemy.31 l Several months after taking ofce, General Berger published FD 2030, which set objectives for redesigning the force so that it could do the things implied by LOCE.