AFPAK Solution #2: REAL Mobile Offshore Bases: Navygyrene racketeers fear!

One AFPAK solution is to put an Army Quick Reaction Force (QRF) on a MOB in the Indian Ocean to respond to any "terror threats" rather than in Afghanistan were their obnoxious FOB presence causes the locals to rebel.

http://www.combatreform.org/itstimetojointheMOB.htm

What strikes fear in the hearts of the Navy/marine racketeers is that the MOB will project not only aircraft more efficiently against land targets than their carriers, it will project REAL, ADEQUATELY SIZED and qualitatively light M113 Gavin, medium Bradley and heavy Abrams tracked, cross-country-mobile armored Army land combat power deep inland far superior to the handfuls of road-bound wheeled trucks and foot slogger ambush-prone victims delivered by sexy and costly flooding well deck amphibious ships.

http://www.combatreform.org/STRATEGICMANEUVER/index.htm

The MOB threatens the existence of the Navy's Midway/Iwo Jima myth rackets during sub-national conflicts (SNCs) which are really the only shred of a mission their nation-state war (NSW) flawed cash cows can hope to do. The supercarrier and amphibious ship can only pitch in a short distance inland for SNCs--IF they are not challenged at sea by NSW produced means. The MOB can house indefinitely entire BRIGADES of Army troops with complete air/ground combined arms forces that can drive far inland as needed to raid SNC rebels or help a friendly nation-state in a pinch. The Army MOB force can set-up TEMPORARY forward operating bases (FOBs) using hardened ISO shipping container "BATTLEBOXes" resupplied by air from CH-47, C-27J, C-130 and C-17aircraft operating from the MOB sight unseen, off-shore. Army MOB forces can "air-mech" with light, full-size, RPG and landmine up-armored M113 Gavins and reduced-size "Mini-Gavins" by CH-47 VTOL aircraft, C-27J, C-130 and C-17 STOL by airland and parachute airdrop to effect 3D maneuver. M113s fitted with ARIS SPA waterjets and nose can swim themselves ashore from the MOB for 2D maneuvers. The U.S. Army owns and operates the largest fleet of "JLOTS" landing craft in the world to convey Army brigades ashore from a MOB. Navy/Mc aircraft and amphibious carriers as floating air bases are inferior to the 5, 000 foot runway MOB and cannot operate large aircraft like the C-130 and C-17 and they know it. Aircraft/amphibious carriers cannot operate USAF fighter-bombers like F-16s, F-15s and stealthy F-22s and long loiter time, low altitude, see-the-target effective Close Air Support (CAS) A-10 Warthogs as they are now without tail-hooks, to influence the situation inland and they know it. By being a piece of artificial LAND, the MOB doesn't need all the costly small platform launch/recovery means that a size constrained ship must use, its a FUNCTIONAL defacto piece of U.S. sovereign territory not one boasted as such.

As the Navy racketeer in the National Defense article points out, the MOB "only" moves at 6-15 mph. My God. That's 6-15 mph FASTER THAN AN INTACT LAND FOB, isn't it? This speed should be more than enough to evade a SNC foe with a missile under a business jet or a RPG in a small boat. Of course, we could also DO JOINTNESS instead of talk about it, and the USN could provide small boats or one of their ballyhooed "Littoral" warships to guard the outer circle and inner circle of the MOB.

The MOB at $5 BILLION each is not cheap but it certainly should be purchased instead of the CVN-21 USS Name-it-after-some-American-Hero-to-Con-the-Taxpayers supercarrier full of victims we do not need to offer up to future enemies. If we have to choose between BATTLEBOX containerizing the entire U.S. Army and the MOB, we should ISO containerize the Army IMMEDIATELY since we are going to need some land FOBs regardless and we need to get out of the occupying former dictator palaces and hiring Halliburton to build us shacks business. We realize KBR Halliburton is offering the MOB, well if a greedy unethical company offers to do something morally sound and tactical smart we should accept it or get someone more virtuous to build the MOB.




We should build one MOB and TRY IT (my God, what a concept? trying something and giving it a chance instead of dismissing it by prejudice) at the Navy/Mc's budgetary expense of one of their BS Midway/Iwo Jima racket carriers and the MOB should be owned and operated by the U.S. ARMY because it represents a piece of artificial dry land.

America needs the ability to mobile base real, capable ground forces off-shores to win SNCs. Container Assault Ships as described here and on our NLMB web site are one option, as is the MOB. You get what you pay for on the laws-of-physics planet earth. Pay more, you get more if you are not wasting it on a ego/greed compromised racketeering means. America should build at least one MOB to reduce its land presence in the middle east and central asia immediately. What America's defense needs should over-ride any service racketeer's budgetary lusting.

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[lgmmrm]

you say it is better than carriers, it'll take at least a week for it to get anywhere, we need a rapid-response force, speed is a little more important than size and capacity these days

[dynmicpara]

@lgmmrm FALSE. Getting somewhere in a hurry with a weak force that gets the crap beat out of it (USMC) or shot-down (USN-USMC) because its self-limited by the small size of its ships and narcissistic mentalities is no recipe for success...USAF cargo planes can parachute drop up to medium-sized tanks and their high performance land-based fighters can fly global distances with in-flight refueling; so there is no excuse to be weak as is the USN/Mc team is.

[ironfalcon100]

Sounds like a good idea, but what about modifying freighters for this task?

[dynmicpara]

@ironfalcon100 You are right. Container ships or obsolete double-wall oil tankers would make great sea bases, too but their runways would limit us to STOL aircraft. Do-able.

[lknkprkninflamesbest]

Can you move this, or do you have to assemble/disassemble this to move it?

[dynmicpara]

It moves at 7 mph when assembled.

[thegrandemperor]

I'm guessing that it will be nuclear powered??

[KlubMarcus]

Interesting concept. You are right, we should build a few just to try them out.

[FantasticBob7000]

Right out of 1984.

[colopity]

youtube won't let me share this vid

[thegrandemperor]

Fantastic then.

[dynmicpara]

The 11 super carriers we have need to be placed in reserve and used sparingly and only grouped together so as to have a fighting chance to survive with air cover. The Navy's sail-around-the-world carrier racket needs to end as its making us go broke. Same to occupying Iraq with 138, 000 troops; 5 x MOBs on no one's soil to cause rebellion with 5 air-mech brigades is more than enough strategic reserve for the two regions you cite.