With traditional amphibious ships unreliable and new strategies to test, the USMC is relying on 50-year old RRF ships that can t do the job. But the LSM and NSMV might.
China is currently the Marine Corps’ pacing challenge, a threat that has prompted some of the most significant changes in the Corps in over a generation.
Dubbed Winter Fury 22, the exercise will bring Marines from bases across the western United States for five days of simulated combat including long-range air strikes and practice seizing an airbase and repairing runway damage.