littoral
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A relatively new missile-toting unit of Marines, based on Okinawa, is designed to fight in a contested littoral battlespace by dispersing, concealing themselves, and taking out enemy ships and aircraft.
The U.S. recently moved littoral combat ships, which it uses to clear mines, out of the region.
Navy is phasing out specialized mine-clearing helicopters and relying on littoral combat ships and drones for future operations.
The Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicle was described as “an unmanned, diesel-powered surface craft” designed to be launched from a littoral combat ship.
Thomas Quarry I sits within the raised coastal formations of the Rabat-Casablanca littoral, an area internationally recognized for its remarkably complete record of Plio-Pleistocene shorelines, dunes, and cave systems.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
