Spirit of Hope wrote:Western navies have been using hovercraft because they allow higher speeds and the ability to deliver vehicles and troops along more coastline. Makes the landing more flexible which means more survivable.
Scandinavian Nations wrote:Modern amphibious operations, particularly on part of the US, are no longer just sea-land; they are sea-land-air. Or, in case of the US, more along the lines of air-sea-air-land-air. Air attack to clear hostiles, transport from sea to land by helicopters and LCAC (in this order), land forces to make strips, more air transport.
The idea of actually slugging it out during the landing has largely been deprecated.
Velkanika wrote:Hovercraft cannot completely replace landing ships due to payload and cost restrictions. Hovercraft and helicopters would probably be used to secure the initial beachead so that conventional landing ships could offload in relative safety.
On a slightly different note, how does this division look? It is primarily equipped with tanks and tracked infantry fighting vehicles. I understand that the composition of a division can vary substantially due to a number of factors, but I don't know whether the structure I have created is plausible. My main concern is that each brigade may have too many battalions. I also don't know if signals, electronic warfare, and intelligence units would appear at the level which this diagram depicts. I apologise in advance if any of the unit symbols are wrong, I do not have much experience APP-6A symbols.