The Future of Marine Corps Logistics

[GR66]

Drug traffickers deploy ‘cocaine navies’ to evade police

‘Narco-subs’ carry million-pound cocaine cargo beneath waterline to go undetected by radars

www.telegraph.co.uk

Low volume, high value cargoes - new technologies. Being picked up and adapted by the military. Eventually to be civilianized.

Marines Test Supply Drones Inspired by Narco Subs in Okinawa, North Carolina - USNI News

Marine Corps Combat Logistics Battalions in Japan and the United States have been employing logistics supply drones inspired by drug-smuggling narco subs in recent exercises and tests. The Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel, also known as Ledios’ Sea Specter, is an unmanned surface vessel designed to...

news.usni.org

I wonder how difficult is for the seeker on an anti-ship missile to lock on to a semi-submersible? Even if detected would the missile have to fly so low that it might hit wave tops? Would CHAFF cause the missile to fly right over top?

 

[Kirkhill]

I wonder how difficult is for the seeker on an anti-ship missile to lock on to a semi-submersible? Even if detected would the missile have to fly so low that it might hit wave tops? Would CHAFF cause the missile to fly right over top?

Add in that some of the semi-submersibles have dive capabilities of varying durations and depths.

I was trying to think of a potential analogous technical advancement. I am leaning towards the clipper ships. They started running high value cargoes of opium and tea. They ended their days in the steam era hauling wool and grain as the cheapest solution.

 

[GK .Dundas]

Look, if you don't have materiel, you don't need logistics.

Make that man a quartermaster !