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The U.S. Marine Corps Might Have a New Way to Sink Chinese Warships (And the F-35 Could Help)
“Imagine a Chinese flotilla sailing toward some remote island group near Japan or The Philippines during some near-future war. A Marine rocket battery could quickly deploy to one island aboard Marine or…
- David Axe
- The National Interest
The U.S. Marine Corps is practicing a new method of speeding firepower across a war zone. And that could have big implications for America’s military strategy in the western Pacific.
On Dec. 7, 2018, Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 hauled two M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers from Camp Pendleton in California to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where a…