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Early discussions indicate the joint Service desire that the sea base be designed to support, among other things, a joint command center afloat, Special Operations Forces ashore, and logistic support of any forces that are ashore up to the design level (yet to be determined) of the sea base.
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Theater-support airlift, with precision airdrop capabilities if needed, will also be available to sustain the forces ashore as appropriate and feasible. The brief review conducted by the Committee on Sea Basing: Ensuring Joint Force Access from the Sea and reported here examined the state of planning for the sea base, including the following: · The concepts of operation (Chapter 1)
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There will also be sea state limitations, space limitations on the sea base, and limitations imposed by the need to transfer cargo between the connectors and the sea base in the open ocean in a seaway. Sea Basing has obvious benefits in conducting limited regional conflicts, but it appears to have a more limited or complementary role in major regional conflict or theater warfare, because of the limitations in the flow of supply tonnage, most of which would have to arrive by sea, that could be sustained in such a situation.
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· The proposed Joint Sea Base Planning Office should take immediate steps to involve the other Services, the combatant commanders, and appropriate defense agencies in the development of the Sea Basing capability.
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Seaborne cargo-transfer operations will require a ship heading that protects the transfer from the adverse effects of wind and waves; airborne transfer operations, especially if the heavy-lift aircraft is a fixed-wing aircraft needing some takeoff run, will require a ship to head into the wind at significant speed. Thus, for simultaneous airborne and seaborne cargo transfer, an intricate choreography of cargo sequencing from single ships, or coordinated operations for multiple ships, will be required, depending on whether the sea base includes single ship types capable of air operations and cargo transfer to other ships, or two types of ships for the two distinctly different kinds of cargo-transfer operations.
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A technical systems study -- involving the trade-offs, interactions, and costs among the various possible heavy-lift aircraft types, the major ships of the sea base, and the seaborne connector ships -- is needed to settle on the preferred design parameters of the total sea base system. Trade-off studies are also required for the alternative methods of effecting cargo transfers between the sea base and the connectors -- both the supply connectors and the shore-bound connectors.
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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendation: A Joint Sea Base Planning Office -- directed by a Navy flag officer or a Marine Corps general officer -- should be established. The director of 6New aircraft called the Advanced Mobility Concept, or AMC-X, with about the same cargo capacity as a C-130 but able to fly higher and faster, while operating from 2,000 ft runways.
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Recommendation: The Joint Sea Base Planning Office should create a joint master plan for technology development, based on an integrated system-ofsystems engineering approach, for the Services to use in developing the components of the sea base within their assigned jurisdictions. Recommendation: The Department of the Navy should identify one large vessel to be used as a testbed for resolving the known problems, including those related to connectors and internal cargo handling, involved in at-sea cargo transfer at Sea States 3 and 4, or two such vessels if required for an integral flight deck in order to explore issues associated with potential future heavy-lift aircraft.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 9 would not be advisable at this time. When the studies listed above in the seventh key conclusion are accomplished by the recommended Joint Sea Base Planning Office (or in some other forum suitable for such detailed analyses)
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