US Marine Corps Experiments Offshore

by John Konrad (gCaptain) According to Craig Hooper, a senior military contributor for Forbes, the US Marine Corps has been working with offshore oil and gas experts to develop a new solution for the contested reefs and islands of the South China Sea. The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab created a prototype for a future Marine Corps landing ship, and it turned out to be a tough, mobile, shallow-water mini-base, which could be produced in large numbers at a reasonable cost. The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab lifted the veil on their initial effort to transform Offshore Support Vessels into a test...

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