Hey, guys I am sure that their Project Railway is either a jet fighter or large aircraft carrier. I think we must to go for a new fighter to negate this threat before it comes into the play.
And you know this... How? The name must be assumed to be meaningless.
If we design a lander, it should have the option to open from the sides or the front. The front for armor, the sides for infantry.
The whole point of a front ramp is so that infantry in full gear have to walk through as little water as possible. Having men deploy from the sides of the boat is making them more likely to drown and more likely to get targeted by machine guns because now they're neck deep in water. The goal is to get the guys off the boat and onto the beach as quickly as possible. The faster that happens, the more likely they will survive.
Having a long boat that's just narrow enough to fit a tank minimizes the risk of a machine gun directly in front of the boat mowing down the occupants.
That way most of the time a machine gun is only going to have this kind of angle:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/LCVP-1.gifI like this a lot. It fits two roles we need and should do well at both, but I'm concerned about how it can follow the fleet. Can our cargo carriers hold them?
The Tiger Shark is nice but it can't deliver supplies or our currently existing tanks. We need an actual lander, something that's cheap and reusable.
UF-LSL-39 "Tadpole"The Light Shore Lander is a shallow-bottomed, narrow landing craft built for reliability first and speed second. It's large enough to deliver 40 soldiers, a single T2 Breaker, or equivalent cargo directly onto a shore and long enough that it's capable of retreating from the beach after landing in order to pick up more cargo. It has an open top so its cargo can be switfly loaded from another ship directly into the interior. There is a forward-angled locking ramp on the bow that can be dropped remotely by the driver, or using an emergency control near the front of the boat; when the boat withdraws, one of the crew cranks the ramp back up using a handle. It has metal eyes on the hull for being hung from davits on larger ships or being towed. It's armed with two Sorraia machine guns for suppressing the beachhead; these are manned by two dedicated crew members. It has very light armor that's only meant to protect from machine gun fire and shell fragments; the sides and ramp (when closed) are just tall enough to protect a standing man from an enemy who is not elevated, and to allow tanks to fire. The engine, driver, and gunners are located in a lightly armored but open cockpit at the rear of the boat.