We might stage the parts of the 82nd Airborne in … Kuwait?
Apparently a good deal of them have been moving out, lately.
… And use the MEUs somewhere else?
Invade ‘Baluchistan’?
I dunno, seems like a bad idea, to do an airborne assault, when Iran seems to be capable of hitting F35s, which are signifcantly harder to spot than a C-130.
But the MEUs… you’d still have to sail the ships up through the strait.
You’re not gonna airlift an amphib pocket carrier.
They basically have a big door in the back that can open and do a controlled partial flooding of an infernal dock, that the actual amphib assault IFVs and/or hovercraft launch out of.
We might stage the parts of the 82nd Airborne in … Kuwait?
Apparently a good deal of them have been moving out, lately.
… And use the MEUs somewhere else?
Invade ‘Baluchistan’?
I dunno, seems like a bad idea, to do an airborne assault, when Iran seems to be capable of hitting F35s, which are signifcantly harder to spot than a C-130.
But the MEUs… you’d still have to sail the ships up through the strait.
You’re not gonna airlift an amphib pocket carrier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Boxer_(LHD-4)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tripoli_(LHA-7)
They basically have a big door in the back that can open and do a controlled partial flooding of an infernal dock, that the actual amphib assault IFVs and/or hovercraft launch out of.