SW1 wrote:Jake1992 wrote:SW1 wrote:Lord Jim wrote:SW1 wrote:No a chance your operating at that distance the round trips would take forever.
There would not be any "round trips", initially. First wave landed by helicopter, second form fast armed LST. Once secured and bridgehead established the larger ships move in, being protected by a "Bubble" formed by defensive systems already landed.
But we are going to have to face the fact that amphibious assaults beyond raiding may be unaffordable for the RN in the future, against peer opponents. The platforms and technology required to make this form of warfare viable is going to get more and more expensive and if we try to retain said capability we will impact other capabilities across all three services. SO maybe we should look to procuring equipment to allow effective raiding in a peer conflicts and a broader range of capabilities against less well equipped opposition. In addition maybe we should look to the RM becoming even more specialised, or even adding an Army Battalion to the Brigade and turning £ Commando into a properly equipped Mountain Brigade if deployed in full. This would be the equivalent of the Army turning 16 AA into the equivalent of a US Army Ranger Regiment, consolidating its three Parachute Battalions under one command.
Whatever we are going to have to think further and further outside the box on how we organise, equip and utilise out military moving forward.
Becoming the UKs globally deployable commando force and as such the UKs contribution to an allied operation outside of the nato area would be what I would like the direction of travel to be. That is a commando force in how it was originally created in that there was army and marine commandos.
What sort of size would look for the RMs to become ?
What size formations would you have them operate in ?
What sort of equipment would you require them to have ?
What sort of transport would you have the RN provide ?
With current funding I do believe the force need to concentrate on increasing the capabilities of what I consider the big 3 special groups the RMs, 16AA and the Gurkhas along with the SFs. This should be done over and above standard light forces.
Depends
Company size max about 250-300
Equipped to undertake the missions I mentioned a few pages back.
I was thinking more of what an overall set up for this new RMs would be like, such as do we continue to decrease the numbers or reverse that trend ?
Do we move to heavier armoured vehicles with things like the ACV ?
Do we give them better artillery and mortars ?
Do a faster transport set like tilt rotors, faster landing craft, CB90s ?
Do we look to operate in multiple areas at once on a smaller company levels ?
Do we have part of force concentrate more on artic warfare for NATO norther flank ?
For me like I said the big 3 should be where we concentrate a lot of our efforts and increase them to say RM 10,000, 16AA 10,000, Gurkhas 5,000+ and SFs up to 3,000 strong. These would be our best contribution to allied forces being the very high skilled and trained forces. Add to this 2 x strike brigade 2 x standard medium armour and 2 x heavy armour, instead of spreading thin over everything.