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原文传递 Littoral Combat Ship: From Concept to Program.

题名：	Littoral Combat Ship: From Concept to Program.
作者：	long, d. johnson, s.
关键词：	underwater vehicles, threats, navy, antiship warfare, area denial, transformations, naval procurement, antisubmarine warfare, interdiction, drones, naval mine warfare, missions, military capabilities, unmanned
摘要：	After the end of the Cold War, the United States faced a sharply diminished threat in the ocean commons. The Navy moved to refocus itself to meet the post-Cold War environment in September 1992, when the Secretary of the Navy signed '...From the Sea.' This white paper outlined a 'fundamental shift away from open-ocean warfighting on the sea toward joint operations conducted from the sea.' It was followed in November 1994 by 'Forward...From the Sea,' another Navy-Marine Corps paper that elaborated on the importance of peacetime forward presence operations. While retaining its ability to maintain strategic dominance in the ocean commons, the Navy was adopting a new, interventionist outlook that focused strongly on what was taking place on shore. This focus on influencing operations ashore drew the Navy into the littoral. The littoral is the area through which an expeditionary military force must pass and in which supporting Naval forces must operate. Operating in the littoral presents a complex collection of challenges. These threats include mines, sea-skimming cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles as well as swarming small boats (armed with short-range missiles or explosives) and diesel submarines. Such systems enable even relatively unsophisticated adversaries to adopt a strategy of anti-access and area denial. The strategic need to gain access and operate in and around the littorals was taken up by the Chief of Naval Operations' Strategic Studies Group (SSG). From 1998 to 2000, the SSG focused on how the Navy should operate in and dominate the littoral. This monograph reviews the evolution of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) from the Streetfighter concept to the LCS Program. The Streetfighter concept called for a family of small ships that would be fast, networked, and modular and would make extensive use of unmanned vehicles and off-board sensors. They would also be austerely manned and cheap enough to afford in large numbers. / NOTE: Monograph. / Supplementary Notes: Case Studies in Defense Transformation, Number 7. The original document contains color images. / Availability Note: Product reproduced from digital image. Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA, 22161, USA.
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