Posted on 02/26/2016 6:06:06 PM PST by MtnClimber
The United States Navy needs more submarines, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capacity, as well as more anti-ship missile capability in the Pacific to counter rising Chinese militarization of the South China Sea. Submarines, especially, are the best way to counter the People's Liberation Army Navy-but the problem is that the United States does not have enough Virginia or Seawolf-class attack submarines. "I don't have the submarines that I feel I need," Adm. Harry Harris Jr., commander of the United States Pacific Command (PACOM) told the House Armed Services Committee on February 24. "But that’s a function of the total number of submarines that the United States Navy has and the global demand for that platform." The U.S. Navy currently operates about 40 subs, but only around fifteen are the most modern Virginia- or Seawolf-class designs.
If given a choice between permanently deploying an additional aircraft carrier and its air wing or more submarines to the Pacific, Harris said that the best way to counter Chinese naval forces would be more submarines. “Submarines are the original stealth platform—they clearly give us an asymmetric advantage,â€
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
Obama had decimated our military, and they cannot be rebuilt in a short time. It will take years - and we might not have that much time.
Funny how the left uses inverse-speak. The Chinese call their army “The People’s Liberation Army” when they actually enslave and control the people. Killing so many dissenters.
Obama’s spokesman replies: “First things first. We need to install more gay bathrooms on all our ships first. And promote more lesbian admirals!”
“First things first. We need to install more gay bathrooms on all our ships first. And promote more lesbian admirals!”
Hitlery would have a dyke lesbian as Chair(woman) of the Joint chiefs of Staff.
This is so totally tubular I think obama would be on top of it.
A whole lot of serious educatin’ needs to be done if we ever intend to make this country what it was again. Truth has been trashed. BS is King.
Maybe Zer0 could have an all gay navy with the Village People song as their new hymn.
How about Japan, Philippines, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, etc., shouldering more of the load?
Why bother us with this? Our PRIORITY is to make sure that Sandra Fluke doesn’t get anymore condoms at taxpayer expense...and there is NO SIGN that Trump will stop her.
Let’s stick with IMPORTANT ISSUES here.
Those countries should be supporting defense, but they got 0bama’ed a long time ago and they are already bankrupting their countries with little defense spending. Their own governments are worse enemies than China.
You do realize that China can roll all of those countries over in less than a month...
Bump! Gee, it must be by accident, like Atomic Iran.
China does not seem to do well with mass invasions. Even Tibet has been a long, drawn out process.
Even Vietnam wasn’t easy for them.
Yes, the people's republic of China. They do it, the Norks do it. The east Germans did it, the Soviet Union did it. It never fooled me, but I am amazed how many idiots out there actually buy it. The stupidity of some is incredible.
Something sounds wrong with that number. Does that also include the Ohio class Boomers?
All types of attack subs,,,?
China is a tough nut at home. But they aren’t built for force projection. Vietnam alone stopped them last time they left home.
This week the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which maintains a database of arms transfers, published data showing that six of the ten largest importers of heavy weapons are in Asia and the Pacific: India, China, Australia, Pakistan, Vietnam and South Korea.
They probably don’t team with us because they don’t trust us.
Aussies just ordered more .... not sure of exact number, more that 4 less than 6 IIRC ... UK as well... but couldn’t find a link.
Aussie link below err down under....
https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/australias-next-generation-submarines-05917/
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