What is a mobile sea base?

An Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD), formerly the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), is designed to be a semi-submersible, flexible, modular platform providing the US Navy with the capability to perform large-scale logistics movements such as the transfer of vehicles and equipment from sea to shore.

How are offshore base stations supported?

James: The offshore base station would be supported by a floating structure, which could be attached to the seabed by anchors. Payloads could be carried from the shore to the station by ship before being lifted into orbit.

What is an ESB naval ship?

Description. The Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship class is highly flexible that may be used across a broad range of military operations supporting multiple operational phases, similar to the Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD) class.

What is a Expeditionary sea base ship?

Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships are highly flexible platforms that can be employed across a broad range of military operations.

What is the USS Hershel Woody Williams used for?

Navy Deployed USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams Near Major African Drug Trafficking Routes. The Navy is taking its sole ship assigned to U.S. Africa Command to places the service hasn’t been in almost a decade – including a key chokepoint that’s become a major opioid drug trafficking route.

What is an expeditionary sea base?

The Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) is the centerpiece of the U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed airborne mine countermeasures mission (AMCM). It will support the operations and maintenance of airborne mine countermeasures detachment personnel and equipment.

Could US Navy’s large unmanned surface vessels be based on Osv designs?

A Naval Sea Systems Command-developed Iraqi 60-meter Offshore Support Vessel. US Navy briefing material indicate that early versions of the service’s large unmanned surface vessels could be based on OSV designs. US Navy Photo

Could an offshore support vessel help Marines in amphibious operations?

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO – As the Navy and the Marine Corps narrow in on what their future amphibious operations might look like, they are considering acquiring something akin to an Offshore Support Vessel to help Marines distribute around a littoral environment in a future fight.

Where are the US Navy submarine bases in the United States?

Eastern United States. The main U.S. Navy submarine bases on the east coast are located in Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut and NSB Kings Bay in Kings Bay, Georgia. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which repairs naval submarines. NS Great Lakes, north of Chicago,…

Is there an OSV ship available to the military?

The Military Sealift Command has been chartering OSV type ships for DECADES. There are dozens available on the commercial market. That the Marines are just now seeing a need for OSV is Amazing?!

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