기타 마약수송보트에서 영감을 얻은 미해병대의 무인보급정

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섬건너뛰기 작전을 수행하려면 적의 타격권 안에 있는 섬에 보낸 병력에 물자를 보내줘야 하는데, 미해병대는 이 용도로 마약수송보트와 유사한 무인 반잠수 수송정인 ALPV( autonomous low-profile vessel)을 시험하고 있네요. 전장 55피트의 무인함이고, 항속거리는 수백~수천 마일이며 식량부터 무기까지 해병대가 필요한 거의 모든 것을 실을 수 있다고 합니다. 

지난 2월 캘리포니아주 캠프 펜들턴에서 열린 미육군의 프로젝트 컨버전스 캡스턴에서 이 무인함을 시험했었따고 하네요. 올 가을 일본 오키나와에서 추가 평가를 받을 예정입니다. 

How the Marine Corps is testing a ‘narco-boat’ for resupply efforts (defensenews.com)

How the Marine Corps is testing a ‘narco-boat’ for resupply efforts

How the Marine Corps is testing a ‘narco-boat’ for resupply efforts

By Diana Stancy

 Sep 5, 2024, 03:18 AM

An autonomous low-profile vessel stands by at the Del Mar Boat Basin as part of Project Convergence Capstone Four on Feb. 23, 2024, at Camp Pendleton, California. (Kevin Ray J. Salvador/U.S. Marine Corps)

The U.S. Marine Corps is testing out an autonomous system inspired by a “narco-boat” to bolster resupply efforts, as the service focuses on island hopping and projecting power from land to sea, according to the head of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.

In addition to delivering two Naval Strike Missiles for the Corps’ anti-ship missile system, the autonomous low-profile vessel the Marine Corps is experimenting with also aims to better get critical supplies like food to forward deployed and distributed Marines, Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Simon Doran said at the Defense News Conference on Wednesday.

“Truth be told, this is just a narco-boat,” Doran said. “We stole the idea from friends down south. And so this is 55 feet long, completely autonomous. It’s able to go hundreds or thousands of miles. It’s able to carry weapon systems that we have that are new. … It can carry pretty much anything you want to put in it.”

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Inspired by narco-boats, which are used by traffickers to smuggle illicit substances across bodies of water, the unmanned vessel remains close to the water-surface level to cut down on the likelihood of detection as it assists with logistics capabilities.

The service tested the logistics supply drone at the Army’s Project Convergence Capstone in February at Camp Pendleton, California, where the Marine Corps trained a cook in 21 days to operate the system off the islands of Japan.

The Army spearheads the Project Convergence to test out advanced technology and capabilities in modern warfare as part of a joint, multinational exercise.

The autonomous low-profile vessel is particularly important because it allows forces to resupply food, fuel and ammunition without jeopardizing the safety of Marines, Doran said.

“If you have that unit located inside a weapons engagement zone, contested logistics and the ability to maneuver in the littorals becomes key,” Doran said. “And for that, what we’re looking at is trying to acquire systems that we deem risk worthy, meaning that we don’t necessarily want to just waste them, but we’d rather put something in there that’s autonomous, that doesn’t have humans on it that can do some of these higher risk missions without having personnel put in that riskier situation.”

This system is something the Marine Corps wanted “yesterday,” but testing is ongoing, Doran said. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory received two prototypes in 2023.

The vessel is expected to join the III Marine Expeditionary Force based in Okinawa, Japan, for further eval‎uation this fall, he said.

The service hopes to purchase the vessels in the next several years, Marine Corps leaders said at the 2023 Defense News Conference.

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80년이 지나서 이젠 미해병대가 드럼통 보급을 받는 시대(?)

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사실 무인반잠수정 = 알아서 항해하는 드럼통이니 ㅋㅋㅋ

과달카날 전투를 열심히 연구했을 것 같은데 그 결과가 조금씩 나오는 것 같습니다.

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미해군은 마약상에게 아이디어를 얻고... 코스트가드는 중국해군의 대응에서 아이디어를 얻는다는 식겁한 상황이 될지도...