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	ARSENAL SHIP
		The arsenal ship is also severely limited in its ability to force entry into a combat zone because of its vulnerabilities, lack of defenses, and limited speed.
		The arsenal ship will not be a very usable weapons platform for combat in those areas where it is not pre-positioned and it will be highly exposed to defensive measures at the start of hostilities if it is pre-positioned.
		Many critics of the arsenal ship propose that Iowa-class battleships be reactivated to fill the strike warfare "gap" in the U.S. Navy instead of the arsenal ships.
	www.cdi.org /issues/naval/arsenal.html (1441 words)

	Arsenal ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In concept, an arsenal ship is a floating missile platform, intended to have as many as five hundred vertical launch bays.
		The Arsenal Ship is touted as being able to make a decisive difference in a campaign, for instance delaying an advance by North Korean forces invading the South for long enough to allow reinforcements to arrive.
		Given this limitation the Arsenal Ship would be capable only of targeting roads or bridges to slow an oncoming enemy; it would be completely unable to engage tanks, armoured personnel carriers or mobile artillery unless they chose to remain in position for hours on end.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arsenal_ship (549 words)

	Arsenal Ship
		The Arsenal Ship was planned to restore the naval support of the land battle, the modern day equivalent of the firepower that battleships provided during World War II and in Korea.
		The Arsenal Ship was developed initially as a demonstration program to provide a large increase in the amount of ordnance available to ground- and sea-based forces in a conflict, particularly during the early days.
		Additionally, if the Arsenal Ship concept proves successful and within its cost projections (around $500 million for construction of each ship), DOD and the Navy may be able to retire or forego purchases of some assets, such as aircraft carriers, surface combatants, ground-based launchers, or combat aircraft.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/arsenal_ship.htm (1845 words)

	Stealth - United States Stealth Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The ship would have a 500 cell vertical launch system, that could be remote controlled by other ships or a field commander on land.
		Arsenal ships will be highly automated, with a crew of zero to 50.
		The arsenal ship is intended to ride very low in the water, and have radar suppressing materials and shapes.
	www.lowobservable.com /Ships.htm (1034 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Supporters believe that the ship is critical to the Navy's requirement to meet the demands of both a littoral strategy and the current rate of technological progress.
		This thesis concludes that, on balance, the Arsenal Ship meets the Navy's requirement for a platform capable of executing a naval power projection strategy in the 21st century.
		All the goals were classic Arsenal - a long ball from Pat Beasley for Drake to run on to, a long pass from Bastin which Drake picked up and ran with to the edge of the area before scoring, and a rebound from a Pat Beasley shot from the wing.
	www.lycos.com /info/arsenal.html (590 words)

	Arsenal Ship - Navy Ships
		The Arsenal Ship was planned to restore the naval support of the land battle, the modern day equivalent of the firepower that battleships provided during World War II and in Korea.
		The Arsenal Ship was developed initially as a demonstration program to provide a large increase in the amount of ordnance available to ground- and sea-based forces in a conflict, particularly during the early days.
		Additionally, if the Arsenal Ship concept proves successful and within its cost projections (around $500 million for construction of each ship), DOD and the Navy may be able to retire or forego purchases of some assets, such as aircraft carriers, surface combatants, ground-based launchers, or combat aircraft.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/arsenal_ship.htm (1834 words)

	Sea Power: Stealth, mobility, survivability
		The arsenal ship may be the predecessor of the SC-21 missile ship, or may itself suffice as such.
		Probably the first strategic objective of the arsenal ships will be to deter regional wars in such global "hot spots" as the Korean Peninsula and the Persian Gulf-a mission they might easily carry out simply by virtue of their ominous presence off the coast.
		Arsenal ship onslaughts at the outbreak of war and for hours (or up to a full day) thereafter would pave the way for U.S. and allied fighter and strike aircraft, both carrier-based and land-based, to control the air and press the attack against ground targets.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3738/is_199704/ai_n8758675 (1090 words)

	Can the Arsenal Ship Function as a Minimum Manned Vessel?
		The Arsenal Ship can function as a minimum manned vessel if sufficient dollars are devoted to giving it a credible level of survivability in the threat environment.
		The arsenal ship will be one of the largest ships in the U.S. Navy with one of the smallest crew complements in relation to its size.
		The arsenal ship is an affordable and much needed enhancement to the United States’ existing force of aircraft carriers and land attack capable surface combatants and submarines.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1997/Navarrete.htm (3669 words)

	Sea Power: New CRS assessment of arsenal ship program
		But the arsenal ship could be protected by various stealth features to make it difficult to detect and by such passive self-defense characteristics as extensive compartmentalization, double-hull construction, water-filled compartments, and/or heavy armor surrounding its missile launching batteries.
		Navy plans call for the arsenal ship, with its small crew (50 or fewer personnel), to deploy to a forward area of operations for 18 months or more.
		By assigning three or four crews to each ship, the Navy estimates, a force of six arsenal ships would be sufficient to keep at least three and possibly as many as five on station overseas at any one time.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3738/is_199709/ai_n8773515 (896 words)

	A 21st Century Battleship
		The Arsenal Ship was an attempt to update the battleship for a new millennia.
		An arsenal ship could carry all forms of ordinance currently in the military service, including army rockets and missiles for shore bombardment.
		An Arsenal Ship built to mercantile specifications would also be far cheaper than the $3 billion DDX, or the $1 billion plus for the reactivation of the 60 year old Iowa’s.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/7-7-2005-72773.asp (526 words)

	8 - COMMENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Build a ship which derives its power not from sensor or combat direction systems, nor weapons intrisic to the ship, such as guns, but from the ordnance it launches.
		In any event, when the first "Arsenal Ship" or "Striker" slips her mooring cable and goes to sea, warfare at sea and on the land within the range of her weapons will have changed.
		The missile ship and her ordnance will thread the needle to a distant miscreant, defend a city or landing beach from tactical ballistic threats or simply by her presence deter conflict and war.
	site.voila.fr /STRIKER_A_Warship/page8.html (856 words)

	New Ship Could Be Next Wave in Warfare
		Called an arsenal ship, the new craft is essentially a floating missile pad run by remote control, with 500 vertical missile tubes able to launch against enemy targets on land, in the sky or at sea.
		The arsenal ship's missiles would be th e Navy's first weapons designed to be fired by someone not on the ship.
		Whoever is in charge of the ship's missiles, military officials agree, its ultimate raison d'etre is to present the world with a weapon so intimidating that it scares malefactors into lawfulness simply by moving close to their shores.
	www.kimsoft.com /korea/hot-ship.htm (1687 words)

	CNN - Navy debates need for new type warship - Oct. 14, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The conventionally powered arsenal ship, essentially a remote-controled, floating missle pad, would reduce the need to move expensive aircraft carriers or other warships, with thousands of sailors, to world hot spots.
		The far cheaper arsenal ship would remain permanently on station, with a skeleton crew, or possibly no crew at all.
		The Navy says the first arsenal ship could be in the water by 2001 at a cost of just under half a billion dollars.
	www.cnn.com /US/9610/14/pentagon.ships (610 words)

	THE ARSENAL SHIP AND THE U
		The thesis concludes that the Arsenal Ship is a viable platform for meeting the U.S. Navy's requirement for littoral power projection to meet the strategic and technological requirements of the 21st century.
		The Arsenal Ship is touted as having the ability to undertake offensive mining and countermine operations, and still operate with less detection - and less protection - in the littoral areas than carriers, however, the skepticism presented in the previous chapter regarding vulnerability raises questions as to the accuracy of these points.
		The Arsenal Ship is perceived to have the flexibility of positioning in such a manner as to effectively interdict advancing armor and to deliver battlefield operational fires in support of U.S. ground forces in the region.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/rsnlship.htm (12765 words)

	Volume 6: Platforms; Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As a consequence, ships will be designed with more attention to their offensive missions and survivability, while attention given to the crew will be focused more on providing greater functionality, survivability, and comfort than are currently possible.
		Ship survivability can be enhanced through the use of integrated intelligent sensing and action systems for rapidly and automatically detecting, characterizing, and controlling fire, flooding, and structural damage.
		Ships' crews would be protected in secure facilities from which they are able to continue combat operations while assessing and managing overall ship conditions.
	www.nap.edu /html/tech_21st/pl2.htm (7127 words)

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		The arsenal ship is the gun barrel, or the airplane, or the missile tube, or the whatever -- that takes the information from somebody else that says please put your thing here and the arsenal ship shoots it.
		In other words, the ship needs to be able take damage and have that damage be controlled by a small number of people which may mean a little different kind of construction.
		People want to call it an arsenal ship and I think the reason is because it carries a lot of weapons like an arsenal, but in fact it's a fire support ship.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/arsenal/boor0824.txt (3390 words)

	Ship Shape (8/1/97)
		The pre-positioned ships would provide the unified commanders in chief (CinCs) with massive firepower in the early hours of a conflict-much sooner than could be provided by bombers traveling from the continental United States or from aircraft carriers, unless they happened to be nearby during a crisis.
		In fact, the arsenal ship is just one of a new line of ships the Navy anticipates building early in the next century as it repositions itself in the aftermath of the Cold War.
		The arsenal ship is being developed under a radically streamlined and simplified acquisition strategy authorized for DARPA under Section 845 of the 1994 Defense Authorization Act.
	www.govexec.com /features/0897s3.htm (2244 words)

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		But the ship's powerful backers at the Pentagon were convinced that such concerns could be addressed, and for a while in the mid-1990s, the project looked unstoppable, especially when two main proponents landed major promotions.
		In March 1996, the Pentagon declared the arsenal ship to be "among the highest priority programs within the Navy." In a bureaucracy, attempts to change course are subject to attack from inside and outside.
		The arsenal ship "was a threat to the carrier, and that was a threat to Newport News Shipbuilding," the nation's sole aircraft-carrier builder, says Thomas Donnelly, a former House Armed Services Committee aide.
	www.rpi.edu /~woodhe/docs/wsj/priceo.txt (4360 words)

	Dead in the water - - MSNBC.com
		Before the ship sank, last January, the authoritative Jane’s defense unit noted that few of Russia’s nuclear-powered submarines were still operable: “Unless funding patterns change it is possible that the submarine missile force could either disappear or shrink to insignificance by the end of the decade.”
		Indeed, the most dramatic move the Navy has taken in recent years is the cancellation in 1997 of a plan to produce an “arsenal ship,” an unglamorous, semi-submerged vessel packed with 500 Tomahawk cruise missiles and manned by a relatively small crew.
		Indeed, had the arsenal ship been built, the need for the DD-21 class itself would be in question.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3340227 (1740 words)

	TSSE Projects: Arsenal Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A major design goal of the Arsenal Ship is to limit the crew size to 50 personnel through the use of system automation, redundancy and equipment reliability, while imposing an additional constraint of limiting the sailaway price to 550 million dollars.
		The Arsenal Ship's hull is a modified repeat of the T-AO 201 class auxiliary ship with double hull.
		The selection of this hull is based partly on mass tonnage for survivability, carrying capacity for approximately 500 vertical launched missiles, and budget constraints that preclude a new hull design.
	www.nps.navy.mil /tsse/files/1996.htm (274 words)

	Arsenal Books
		The Arsenal Christian Booksellers is committed to processing your order in a timely manner.
		We have other options for expedited shipping, but because of the high cost to overnight and second day ship a package, we don't recommend it.
		The Arsenal will ship the in-stock items to you, and then ship the backordered items when they are back in stock, at no extra shipping charge to you.
	www.arsenalbooks.com /shipping.asp (343 words)

	CNN - Navy debates need for new type warship - Oct. 14, 1996
		The conventionally powered arsenal ship, essentially a remote-controled, floating missle pad, would reduce the need to move expensive aircraft carriers or other warships, with thousands of sailors, to world hot spots.
		The far cheaper arsenal ship would remain permanently on station, with a skeleton crew, or possibly no crew at all.
		The Navy says the first arsenal ship could be in the water by 2001 at a cost of just under half a billion dollars.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9610/14/pentagon.ships (610 words)

	Arsenal ship sails calmly on as rivals toil in stormy waters \| Man Utd \| Premiership \| Football \| Sport \| Telegraph
		Arsenal ship sails calmly on as rivals toil in stormy waters
		Arsenal ship sails calmly on as rivals toil in stormy waters
		Arsenal take on Manchester United on Sunday confident that their board have managed the club's affairs more shrewdly than their counterparts at Old Trafford, leaving the Londoners in better shape than their rivals both on and off the field.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml;sessionid=Q1RX0H05YRKXLQFIQMGSM5WAVCBQWJVC?xml=/sport/2004/10/21/sfnbos21.xml&sSheet=/sport/2004/10/21/ixfooty.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=95519 (911 words)

	ADM Boorda - Quotes from the CNO
		The arsenal ship is the gun barrel, or the airplane, or the missile tube, or the whatever -- that takes the information from somebody else that says "please put your weapon here." The arsenal ship then shoots it.
		ARSENAL SHIP/CLOSE AIR SUPPORT 2/16/96 INTERVIEW GEORGE WILSON The Arsenal ship concept includes the ability to support combat forces and/or prepare the battlefield very early in a conflict, possibly even before land based airpower could be brought to the region.
		For a ship to have passed a "John Bulkeley" inspection with high marks was truly the pinnacle of excellence at sea.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/people/flags/boorda/boorda.html (19242 words)

	L'Arsenal>>Maquettes
		Leading ship of the class was the Surcouf, who disapeared in tragic circumstances in the early seventies, almost cut in half by a Russian ship !.
		The career of the ship is covered in 134 pages full of drawings and photos, the larger part of the volume is devoted to the last moments of Courbet acting as a breakwater in the artificial harbour of Arromanches just after D-Day.
		The ship is seen at sea, with her complement of Dewoitines and Pierre Levasseur on the flightdeck.
	www.larsenal.com /GB/news/news.php (6245 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To accomplish this, a non-acquisition category demonstrator ship was to be developed, in the water and ready for testing by October 2000, and which would have been convertible to a fleet asset at a future date.
		In April 1997, the original Arsenal Ship Demonstrator concept was expanded by the Navy and DARPA to include risk reduction efforts for the Surface Combatant of the 21st Century (SC-21) (Tab G) and the Demonstrator’s name was changed to the Maritime Fire Support Demonstrator (MFSD) (Tab H) to reflect this expansion.
		Arsenal Ship, with a minimal set of technical objectives (9 pages of goals with no thresholds), coupled with an office size of six Government employees, kept industry’s trade space open, communications direct, and delays to a minimum.
	akss.dau.mil /docs/001EB001DOC.doc (2754 words)

	Dead in the water - - MSNBC.com
		Before the ship sank, last January, the authoritative Jane’s defense unit noted that few of Russia’s nuclear-powered submarines were still operable: “Unless funding patterns change it is possible that the submarine missile force could either disappear or shrink to insignificance by the end of the decade.”
		Indeed, the most dramatic move the Navy has taken in recent years is the cancellation in 1997 of a plan to produce an “arsenal ship,” an unglamorous, semi-submerged vessel packed with 500 Tomahawk cruise missiles and manned by a relatively small crew.
		Indeed, had the arsenal ship been built, the need for the DD-21 class itself would be in question.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3340227 (1784 words)

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