Japan Ready to Declare: We’ll Go First

Time ^ | July 09, 2013 | Kirk Spitzer

[GeronL]

They will fight for legal kiddie porn and Hello Kitty sex toys for the pretten sex idols.

How noble a cause!

[Zhang Fei]

I’ll be impressed when they increase their military budget. The current 1% of GDP number is half the Chinese %.

[central_va]

We should give all our non nuclear carries to Japan to overhaul and operate.

[gaijin]

[tanknetter]

At this point I’m just fine with them building a couple carriers (can license build the RN’s QE class, like they did with their early dreadnought battleships).

[Williams]

Wtf are you talking about?

[kabar]

It is obvious that the Japanese can no longer depend on the US. This is more of Obama leading from behind.

[tanknetter]

We should give all our non nuclear carries to Japan to overhaul and operate.

I think right now the only US carrier that's held as a reserve asset is the Kitty Hawk. Maybe Constellation, but I recall reading that she'd been struck. All the others have been struck, with all of them except Kennedy (held for museum donation) and possibly Ranger (also held for museum donation - but I'd read that the SEALS removed her screws using plastic explosives as part of a training exercise some years ago) and Independence (retired in good condition, apparently) in pretty advanced states of decay. One (America) has been sink-exed.

The US runs its carriers into the ground. I mean, we get good life and great value out of them, but the costs of operating them after ~50 years of service is exorbitant. In addition to how the conventionals were late 1940s/1950s designs without a lot of consideration given to manpower requirements (like is happening with the Ford class).

Building new would give the Japanese fresh ships with 50 year lifespans built to more economical manning standards. Going with the QE class would limit the need for them to reinvent the wheel with an indigenous design.

[ErnBatavia]

I haven't forgiven the Nippers for their atrocities against our troops (and their entire region) seven decades ago. Phock 'em all, and the ghosts of their "honorable ancestors".

A nation of butchers.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Are you drunk typing?

[GeronL]

half-blind

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Japan builds Aegis destroyers based on US blueprints. They’re not ABS standard, but are essentially the same as US Navy ships.

[denydenydeny]

The subtext of this article is the increasing unreliability of the United States as an ally, and the complete all-fronts disaster that is US foreign policy under Obama.

[laplata]

They will fight for legal kiddie porn and Hello Kitty sex toys for the pretten sex idols.

How noble a cause!

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You drinking Saki?

[JerseyanExile]

Japan has already laid down one carrier with a displacement of almost 30,000 tons, with plans for another two.

[Pox]

Sounds to me like a thinly veiled warning that they have or are preparing to go nuclear capable on a moments notice, although that probably isn't unexpected as I'm sure they could have them in practically no time if they so desired.

Not only that, but I'm sure they've other “interesting” technologies that they're probably ready to prepare for fielding on short notice if China starts becoming significantly provocative. They're well aware that the left in this country will let China do as they please in that theater and are simply preparing to HAVE to go it alone.

[SampleMan]

All of them? That would be zero.

[GeronL]

no.

[Oztrich Boy]

Freepers tend to drift the threads to what interests them.