Advanced Expeditionary Support Concept Vessel

Abstract

For decades the United States has used small landing craft in combination with heavy-tonnage offshore ships to land mobile units of soldiers and armor support on foreign soil. This proven strategy has led to a current logistics concept known as seabasing, in which equipment and personnel are transported from an offshore base to shore. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps now seek to improve the transport of equipment and logistical support through the use of a flexible transport ship capable of moving equipment from the continental United States (CONUS) to the seabase, and then from seabase to shore. The goal of the Advanced Expeditionary Support Vessel (AESV) concept is to create a potential design for a multi-mission capable vessel that can travel from CONUS to seabase and to shoreline under a variety of load and mission conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 2006
Accession Number
ADA488080

Entities

People

  • Andrew Dion
  • David Widhalm
  • Lluis Penalver-aguila
  • William Story

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Amphibious Ships
  • Boats
  • Buoyancy
  • Composite Materials
  • Deployment
  • Intact Stability
  • Landing Craft
  • Logistics
  • Marine Transportation
  • Navy
  • Ship Design
  • Ships
  • Transport Ships
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Vehicles
  • Watercraft

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.