USMC HIMARS.

This is coolbert:

Seems the idea of the arsenal ship is already here. An existing naval warship with a simple addition of a already-proven rocket artillery system becomes a modern battleship [almost].

See my previous blog entries [having additional embedded links] that topic the modern battleship [arsenal ship]:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2020/07/arsenal-i.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2020/07/arsenal-ii.html

Long-range supporting fires now more than a possible. American Marines conducting an amphibious operation NOW have HIMARS. [first trial-run was of 2017]

"Marines Fire HIMARS From Ship in Sea Control Experiment With Navy"

Advanced gun system [AGS] 155 mm discarded. Railgun too. Marines lacking with conventional indirect fire support! Answer has been found! I hope so.

"ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP USS ESSEX – The daytime launch of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System on Sunday might have seemed like another training mission if the Marines hadn’t fired it from an amphibious ship operating at sea."

"A detachment of Marines with Camp Pendleton, Calif.-based 5th Battalion, 11th Marines, set up the vehicle-borne launch system on the flight deck of [the] amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD-23). Programmed with information about the objective – suspected enemy air defenses – on a nearby island, the HIMARS launcher fired off a rocket at a target 70 kilometers [44 miles] away."

The Swedish Archer artillery system also good to go to providing indirect fire support for marines as they storm ashore. Archer as with the HIMARS just brought to the deck and can engage targets with precision-guided artillery munitions in the jiffy.

Provide additionally just for grins those amphibious assault ships with Mk-32 torpedo tube launchers? Additional fire support on call anti-ship. Every ship a battleship?

coolbert.