Repulse wrote:Jake1992, possibly - what I’m trying to get to is what is the auxiliary fleet size and composition to support the objective I’ve laid out.
If the Points had capacity for a couple of hundred troops each and a brigade (plus support) is approx 5,000. Then overload the 3 Bays and 4 Points could move 2,900 - 4 Points and 6 Bays would be get to the magic number, if each Bay had a LCU in the well dock plus Mexiflots.
“Where” is most likely going to drive that answer eg distance from the UK that you planning to commit an army brigade and in what time frame. What sort of logistical backup will be required and how quickly can you provide it and is it from the same place if there using a road move of about say 100miles after disembarking. Will the brigade all disembark at the same place or in a variety of ports.
If your deploying an army brigade is it straight into a fight or to a safe port? Is the port only safe if a security team has already landed by air or sea to secure it? Are you deploying the vehicles by sea and flying the majority of troops in to join the equipment.
Feeding into that what is the thru put of vehicles which will likely be around 1000 to get vehicles from the port to assembly areas. How many ports are you looking at being able to utilise, are they all deep water ports or more numerous shallow water facilities, does that mean you can’t dock a point, will it need mexefloat or landing craft to transfer vehicles from the points to the port or will it mean using perhaps something like a JSHV with a shallow draft and more rapid deployment.
The other bit to this is where littoral strike comes in, in so much as securing a choke point to allow freedom of movement/navigation of the ships carrying your brigade or independently of any further action where boarding and raiding of strategic positions along a coast maybe required.
Feeding into both of these is requirement for underwater survey and monitoring for safe vessel channels, potential mines or lurking subs.
There all linked and means we would be moving well away from what has been transitionally seen as landing a marine brigade over a beach and that drives a different ship configuration. In my view the strike brigade and in particular boxer and the navy shipping requirement are becoming inextricably linked.