‘If It Floats, It Fights’: Navy Seeks ‘Distributed Lethality’

‘If It Floats, It Fights’: Navy Seeks ‘Distributed Lethality’
‘If It Floats, It Fights’: Navy Seeks ‘Distributed Lethality’

CRYSTAL CITY: “If it floats, it fights,” Rear Adm. Peter Fanta says. “That’s ‘distributed lethality'[:] Make every cruiser, destroyer, amphib, LCS [Littoral Combat Ship], a thorn in somebody else’s side.” “It just takes arming everything,” says Fanta, the director of surface warfare (section N96) on the Navy staff. “Lethality” simply means more and better weapons. “Distributed” means…