In yet-to-be-cemented program plans, the Navy has scrapped intentions to buy aviation-capable amphibious LHA replacement ships for the Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future) in the next five years and hopes instead to procure assault-echelon variants of the ship -- a move that satisfies one Marine Corps requirement at the cost of another. The move delays the completion of the MPF(F), an integral part of future seabasing plans for the Marine Corps, while fulfilling the service's requirement for 11 big-deck, aviation-capable amphibious...
