据美国海军部官员声称,美海军正着手实施一项舰载直升机的改装计划,其目的在于使其携带导弹的舰载直升机在进入二十一世纪时具有更强的作战能力。这项改装计划是美国海军战略重心转变三个发展阶段计划中的一部分。这一转变就是将作战焦点由在冷战时期的注重反潜作战,转变为更加强调加强对敌实施近海作战或浅近岸滩作战。抵近敌方海岸作战,必将使海军舰艇处于一种极为复杂的作战环境,这种环境包括有可能在那些商业用船中混杂诸如小型舰艇和常规动力潜艇的作战舰只。而直升机通常被用来充当海军作战舰艇的耳目,而且如果加装武器系统,更可以为那些前置 According to U.S. Department of Admirals officials, the U.S. Navy is embarking on a plan to retrofit a carrier-based helicopter with the aim of making its missile-carrying helicopters more capable of operation in the twenty-first century. The conversion plan is part of the plan to transform the strategic focus of the U.S. Navy at three stages of development. This shift is to shift the focus of operations from focus on anti-submarine warfare during the Cold War to more emphasis on strengthening offshore operations or shallow beach operations on the enemy. Fighting near enemy coasts will surely place naval vessels in an extremely complex operational environment that includes the possibility of confusing those commercial vessels with combat vessels such as small ships and conventional powered submarines. Helicopters, on the other hand, are often used to serve as naval vessels, and if equipped with weapons systems,