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U.S. Navy & Marine Corps Demonstrate Unmanned Ship-to-Shore Transit Capability
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The U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) recently harnessed the power of unmanned technology and successfully tested the Remote Control Assault Amphibious Vehicle (RC AAV).
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Bride said NSWC PCD’s USMC Maneuver Systems Branch is concurrently developing three remote breaching/proofing mission sets for the RC AAV’s control system. To accomplish this, NSWC PCD is leveraging optimal technical expertise by networking with experts across the Department of Defense’s (DoD) littoral battlespace communities.
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U.S. Navy SSBN USS Nebraska Tests Four Trident II D5 SLBM
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The U.S. Navy conducted four scheduled missile test flights of unarmed Trident II (D5) submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) from USS Nebraska, an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), off the coast of Southern California this week.
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Seawolf-class SSN USS Connecticut back in the Fleet following Maintenance & Modernization work
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Returning another strategic asset to service with the fleet, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility completed its work on USS Connecticut (SSN 22) Sept. 5.
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U.S. Navy & Marine Corps Demonstrate Unmanned Ship-to-Shore Transit Capability
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here's the link to related press-release:
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U.S. Navy and Marine Corps demonstrate unmanned ship-to-shore transit capability

By Dan Broadstreet | NSWC PCD Public Affairs | Sept. 5, 2019

as far as I understand, the goal would be to clear a beach from mines (I guess not just 'land' mines, but also 'beach zone' mines) before assaulting it
 
Today at 9:30 AM
Yesterday at 12:26 PM
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Trump abruptly cancels Afghan peace deal with Taliban
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US still interested in Taliban peace deal, Pompeo says
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The US is still interested in striking a peace deal with the Taliban, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN Sunday, but won't move forward until there is proof that the Taliban can deliver on its commitments under a potential agreement.
Pompeo was speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" the morning after President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced he had
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with Taliban leaders. The President said he scrapped the meeting after the Taliban took credit for an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed a dozen people,
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"I think as you saw, if the Taliban don't behave, if they don't deliver ... the President of the United States is not going to reduce the pressure," Pompeo said.
He listed a number of items he said the Taliban had, in principle, agreed to -- including sitting down with Afghan leaders, achieving "certain reductions in violence" and breaking with al Qaeda.
"If we can't get those conditions met ... we're not going to enter into any deal," Pompeo said.
The secretary of state said Sunday's now-canceled meeting at Camp David was in the works "for a while" and defended Trump's decision to invite Taliban leaders on US soil.
"It was the case that when the Taliban tried to gain a negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside the country, President Trump made the right decision" to walk away, Pompeo said. "It made no sense for the Taliban to be rewarded for that kind of bad behavior."
Despite Trump's statement that he was ending peace talks, Pompeo said the administration is still working toward a deal and was seemingly close to one before Thursday's bombing in Kabul.
"We have it in hand, and there's still more work to do ... but in the end, it won't be about the commitment, it'll be about their delivery," he said. "We're going to keep driving toward that outcome."
Despite Trump saying in his tweet Saturday that peace negotiations are called off, new dates are being discussed by the White House for a potential meeting with the Taliban and the Afghan government, a source familiar with the planning told CNN. It's unclear if the Taliban will have to make hard and fast commitments before the meeting or if Trump is using the cancellation and rescheduling simply as a negotiating tactic.
Next US moves remain unclear
The unprecedented move by the President to invite Taliban leaders onto American soil comes after Trump said as recently as late last month that he is planning to withdraw thousands of US forces from Afghanistan but will keep 8,600 troops in the country at least for the time being. It's not clear if Trump's Saturday night announcement will impact that plan.
But the revelation he was inviting Taliban leaders onto US soil prompted alarm among congressional lawmakers, including several prominent members of Trump's own party.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House,
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that "no member of the Taliban should set foot there. Ever." She added that Trump was "right to end the talks."
Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, similarly said in a
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that members of the Taliban should "never" be allowed in the US.
Trump's announcement Saturday comes as the US and the Taliban appeared to be close to finalizing a peace deal. US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad returned to Doha, Qatar, this week to resume talks with the Taliban.
But the insurgent group has not halted its campaign of violence as the peace talks with the US have taken place, and Thursday's killing of an American when a deal was reportedly close appears to have prompted the dramatic move from the President.
The Pentagon announced Friday that Sgt. 1st Class Elis Angel Barreto Ortiz was killed in Afghanistan. Barreto, a 34-year-old paratrooper from Morovis, Puerto Rico, died when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near NATO headquarters and the US embassy in Kabul. Barreto is the 16th US service member to be killed in Afghanistan in 2019, and three other American service members have been killed in recent weeks.
The Afghan government did not push for the cancellation of the meeting at Camp David after the Taliban attack this week, it was a decision by the White House and the State Department, the source familiar with the planning said. In a statement, the Afghan government blamed the Taliban for the breakdown of the US talks revealed by Trump.
 

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Hey guys. What do you think of the USN anti-submarine capacity? Numerous times stories have been shared about french, swedish, Chinese (etc) submarines sneaking in the CSG's formation during exercices. Why don't we hear any actual successful ASM exercices coming from the USN proving that it's not that bad?
 
Hey guys. What do you think of the USN anti-submarine capacity? Numerous times stories have been shared about french, swedish, Chinese (etc) submarines sneaking in the CSG's formation during exercices. Why don't we hear any actual successful ASM exercices coming from the USN proving that it's not that bad?
when, according to you, the event(s) of "Chinese submarines sneaking in the CSG's formation during exercices" occurred please:
 
pulling this from the Chinese Type 075 thread,
I look at it from a prioritisation point of view.


There are a very limited number of flat-tops (carriers or LHDs).
So it makes sense to maximise the capability of the airwing or amphibious forces

Almost ship can incorporate a VLS with land attack cruise missiles.
And we now see the US testing VLS Tomahawk launches on trucks.

Medium range air defence radars and VLS can also be carried by escort Frigates.

I am afraid you are not connecting the dots as to where this is going.

THE US armed services especially the USN and USMC have been talking about distributed lethality for some time and more recently about the concept o island hopping. For those wondering where those missiles will be placed post INF world, the concept is basically to put those long range missiles into a truck and ferry them via V-22 a thousand kms away onto some remote island, unload and fire them away with tracking data from F-35s. Pack and then disappear back onto their LHA's or whatever.

Remember the test in August of a F-35 providing tracking data to ground missile via the IBCS network.
Brumby that's your diversion which doesn't make Yesterday at 7:34 PM question disappear
Andy I'm wondering if you meant that circus Aug 19, 2019

or some other "VLS Tomahawk launches on trucks"?
and I ask again about alleged recent instances of "VLS Tomahawk launches on trucks" except the show performed right after the US withdrawal from the INF
Aug 19, 2019
like everywhere I go this evening, I hear
US Conducts 1st Ground-Launched Cruise Missile Test After INF Treaty Pullout
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I would've thought a TLAM should hit at over 500 km, yes, even if land-launched
please note
  1. I don't tend to believe in coincidences, and
  2. the claim by Andy was "And we now see the US testing VLS Tomahawk launches on trucks."
so:
 

Brumby

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An interesting article from warzone on how the USMC might transform over time.

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Meanwhile the following pictorial from the article on the composition of ARG looks cool with all the equipment.

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Never realized that the KC-130J was ever part of the ARG.
 

Tetrach

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when, according to you, the event(s) of "Chinese submarines sneaking in the CSG's formation during exercices" occurred please:

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Was the submarine detectes or not, I don't know and I don't want to debate about this. All I'm asking is exercices where the US successfully detect enemy submarines. As far I as searched, it happened during rimpac-2006 and in the hunter shark 2015 exercice. I would like more examples.
 

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Was the submarine detectes or not, I don't know and I don't want to debate about this. All I'm asking is exercices where the US successfully detect enemy submarines. As far I as searched, it happened during rimpac-2006 and in the hunter shark 2015 exercice. I would like more examples.

There is probably some truths to those incidents but the problem is when facts are incomplete then any conclusion can be clouded. Both incidents seem to imply that the sub was able to trail the carrier group. One of the reason why US subs are all nuclear powered is because conventional subs do not have the speed to keep up with a carrier group. How a Chinese conventional sub is able to trail a US carrier group is an issue I cannot reconcile with known facts. If the sub had simply lie in wait and was lucky to be in the pathway then it is possible but then the report of it successfully trailing would be incorrect. Do US carrier groups typically operate at speeds beyond conventional sub as a preventive operational maneuver I would not know.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

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and I ask again about alleged recent instances of "VLS Tomahawk launches on trucks" except the show performed right after the US withdrawal from the INF
Aug 19, 2019
please note
  1. I don't tend to believe in coincidences, and
  2. the claim by Andy was "And we now see the US testing VLS Tomahawk launches on trucks."
so:
No Truck just trailer.
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And hardly the most Mobile friendly one at that. They can probably attack a HET and drive it around but it’s about as Mobile as the Saturn V rocket was.
 
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