Ensured Access to Contested Beachheads via Autonomous Platforms

Abstract

The United States Marine Corps is currently underequipped to conduct amphibious landings in an Anti-Access/Area-Denial(A2/AD) environment against contested beachheads with multi-layered, deliberate obstacle belts. The Corps current model for amphibious raids and assaults assumes a more-than-modest degree of maritime and air superiority. This essay outlines fully, partially, and optionally autonomous capabilities in both surface and air domains which will enable successful amphibious operations against deliberate obstacles employed within a FOCDPIG architecture from shallow offshore through the depth of the beach. It also presents multiple technologies currently in various stages of development and a method of employment which will provide improved likelihood of mission success while minimizing human casualties in the earliest and most dangerous waves of an amphibious operation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 2019
Accession Number
AD1177328

Entities

People

  • Matthew Munroe

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Military Vehicles
  • Amphibious Operations
  • Amphibious Vehicles
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Explosives
  • Landing Craft
  • Landing Forces
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Reconnaissance
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • United States
  • War Games
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.