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Striking Power of the Fleet in 1980 Copley Press The United States Navy: A Look Ahead to 1980 RIVERO-GRIFFIN-MORSE-McCAlN MILLER-BENSON & HElNL VOL. 7, NO. 11 NOVEMBER, 1964 The Civilian VOICE of the Navy Official Publication of THE NAVY LEAGUE of the UNITED STATES The Civilian ARM of the Navy THE MAGAZINE OF SEA POWER 1 Features Advertisers The Fleet of 1980 Chrysler Corp. ........................................C-2 By ADMIRALHORACIO RIVERO, JR., USN ............................... 6 Striking Power of the Fleet in 1980 Copley Press ............................................ C-3 By ADMIRALCHARLES D. GRIFFIN,USN ...................-........ 12 Research and Future Fleet Operations Lyton Kistler .......................................... 50 By DR. ROBERTW. MORSE.............................................. 16 McDonnell Aircraft ................................ C-4 The Amphibious Force of 1980 By VICE ADMIRALJOHN S. MCCAIN,JR., USN .................. 20 United Aircraft Corp. ........................... 11 Problems of National Strategy in the 1980's Vacuum Can Co. .................................... 19 By REARADMIRAL GEORGE A. MILLER,USN ...................... 23 'Rip Van Winkle Looks at Submarines-1980' Westinghouse Electric Corp. ..............26-27 By REARADMIRAL ROY S. BENSON,USN 29 Unification and the Navy in 1980 By COLONELR. D. HEINL,JR., USMC (Ret.) 33 NAVY-The Magazine of Sea Power Eastern Sectional Meeting Set for San Juan ............................. 40 Second-Class postage poid at Washington, D. C. Pub- Daspit Calls on his NRTC Skippers to lished monthly by the Navy Leogue of the United States, Support Naval Sea Cadet Program ..................... 41 818 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. This magazine is classified by the Library of Congress call Departments number: VA-49-N28. 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Thomas Sprague W. Paul Thayer FEEDJ. DREW JACKR. MCKKNZIE GEORGEWINGFIELD, JR. Matkr printed henin doas not necessarily represent the opinion of the publishers. Laurence F. Farrell By ADM CHARLES D. GRIFFIN, USN Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe ERHAPS the best way to In considering the entire tacti- Pgrasp the idea of how the cal picture of this hypothetical Navy of tomorrow will operate is problem the reader must bear in to take a hypothetical military mind that by 1980 many coun- problem and put it in a 1980 tries may have nuclear military setting. capability, much of which will be Let us assume it is 15 years seaborne. It is a reasonable as- hence, no major World War in- sumption the future will see most volving the wholesale exchange nations maintaining their nuclear of nuclear weapons has occurred, striking forces at sea to minimize and that a small nation, torn by the risk of destruction by asso- internal disorders, faces a threat- ciation with continental bases. ened take-over by a militant would- Thus, in executing his mission. be dictator. The incumbent gov- the task force commander is virtu- ernment has called on the United ally self-sufficient and, tactically, States for assistance and has asked must deploy his ships against an American forces to land to restore ever-present threat of a counter- order and preserve the status quo. member that 15 years from now strike by seaborne forces. there is a possibility that there The odds are that our hypotheti- Growing Nuclear Club will be no nearby overseas bases cal commander will be directing A naval task force, complete to "back up" such a landing. This operations from a nuclear-powered with striking and amphibious is indicated by the present world- carrier-a CVA(N). forces, steams at high speed to- wide growing nationalism and the Our tactician of 1980 will not wards the objective area. In reluctance of smaller nations to be- be pacing the bridge, peering envisioning this task force bar- come involved in the cold war through binoculars, or taking mes- relling-in, it is important to re- struggles of the major powers. sages in the flag plot, and anxi- ously scanning his deployment on plastic status boards. Instead his command post will look more like the control panel of a TV studio. and he will be sitting in front of an organ-like console which will house the switches of a battery of computers. As his task force slices along at better than 40 knots, the com- mander will know from his com- puter-operated Naval Tactical Data System all pertinent information on which to predicate decisions. With background information hav- ing previously been fed into the A slibstantial number of the Nav~l's NTDS, and with current data on ai~tisubmarinesurface ships ore libel!/ a steady in-put basis, the computer to be nuclear powered by the 1980s. will supply instant information Above, the coin~entionallz/ propelled destroyer escort USS BRONSTEIN, ranging from weather and unit armed with the ASROC missile and guns. dispositions to recommended weap- ons to be employed. Tied to JCS The information constantly com- ing up on the commander's Tac- tical Data System will be appearing concurrently on a similar console at the war room of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The JCS also will be feed- ing into the commander's NTDS information about matters outside of his immediate operating cogni- zance but pertinent to his strike. The odds are that this com- mander of the future will be able to talk to the captains of the other units afloat with something like Hydrofoils,as well as air cushior~vehicles, hold promise for naval applicntions. Abozle the HIGH a "scramble vision" device-a com- POINT. the Navy's first operational Itgdrofoil, iu munication system which does not shozun during ksts offthe Waslaiizgton State disclose a ship's position as signals coast. The 110-toil craft was built for the Bureau are bounced off the moon or a sat- of Ships hy the Boeing Company.
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