Sea power and force projectionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 |
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Admiral FOLEY Admiral HOLCOMB Admiral ROWDEN Admiral SHAPIRO advance procurement Air Force aircraft carriers airlift allies amphibious lift amphibious ships assault assumptions BATTALION brigade budget build capability CARLUCCI carrier battle groups Chairman command contingencies cost cruise missiles cruisers defense deleted deploy Diego Garcia equipment facilities fiscal year 1982 fleet Fleet Marine Force force level force structure funding going GORMAN helicopters increase Indian Ocean KELLEY land land-based logistics look MAGTF Major SEIFERT Marine Amphibious Force Marine Corps Marine Force maritime pre-positioning military million mission mobility NATO operations Persian Gulf planning problem question RDJTF region runways Russ scenario sealift Senator BYRD Senator COHEN Senator HART Senator LEVIN Senator QUAYLE shipbuilding Southwest Asia Soviet Navy Soviet Union strategic subcommittee submarines surface combatants talking tanks thing threat U.S. Navy United VOGT warfare weapons wing
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Page 2099 - This requirement, coupled with inflationary factors, drives the cost of individual targets beyond that of the less complex ones of only a few years ago. Even so, aerial targets remain vitally important to training and fleet readiness. The fiscal year 1982 budget requests $67.9 million for these targets.
Page 2099 - Other Missile" fleet support Item funds material for missiles already In fleet Inventory — TERRIER, TARTAR, and the submarine-launched SUBROC antisubmarine rocket. Material procured by these funds Includes stands, containers, consumable test and training material, and replacement equipment for the service life extension of the SUBROC Missile.
Page 1876 - Trident submarines have already been authorized and funded through fiscal year 1981. The proposed building rate represents the minimum construction level required to provide for orderly replacement of existing Polaris and Poseidon submarines, the oldest of which will have been in service 22 years by the time the lead Trident is delivered.
Page 1879 - FFG-7 class frigate is equipped with a general purpose missile launcher which can fire the HARPOON Surface-to-Surface Missile for offensive operations against surface ships as well as the SM-l medium range missile against aircraft and missile targets.
Page 1864 - The active surface combatant force structure at end fiscal year 1981 will be 188 ships composed of 66 multi-purpose guided missile cruisers and destroyers, 43 ASW destroyers, and 79 frigates. This is where we are today. To portray the future, I have constructed a series of graphs which show what will happen over time to our surface combatant forces assuming normal retirement and construction of the ships authorized and appropriated through fiscal year 1981.
Page 2099 - AERIAL TARGETS The aerial target program provides training assets to establish and maintain the combat readiness required by Navy personnel in the use of air and surface to air missile and guns systems and for the testing of new weapons.
Page 1749 - Deputy Secretary of Defense Secretary of the Army Secretary of the Navy Secretary of the Air Force...
Page 1914 - There are sizable US forces in place in Western Europe — with the exception of naval forces in the Indian Ocean, we have none in Southwest Asia. • There are sizable amounts of prepositioned supplies and equipment in Western Europe for reinforcing units — we have none in Southwest Asia. • There is an in-place command and control system in Western Europe — we have none in Southwest Asia. • There is an extensive in-place logistics infrastructure...
Page 2101 - MK 38 MINI-MOBILE TARGET The MK 38 Miniature Mobile Target (MMT) is a small, expendable hand-launched acoustic device developed as an open ocean ASW basic training target for surface ship hull mounted and towed array sonars, and the MK 46 Torpedo. It is small, easy to use and relatively inexpensive. The total request for MK 38 Mini-Mobile Target support in fiscal year 1982 is $700 thousand.
Page 1657 - The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advance naval bases, and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.