Posted on 11/11/2019 4:51:20 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Yes; once China goes traveling in their neighborhood it will be a hoot.
Thank you
I was thinking about all thr defensive ships also needed.
Need scrap steel? There is an abundance in many backyards, barnyards, and even frontyards in rural America. There are some truck routes that I drive regularly, and about everyday I see more and more steel ‘bones’ that I somehow missed before.
Why are they building archaic dead ships? As our libtard socialist ‘experts’ lament?
who cant find a wife..
like thats a bad thing.
plenty of guys here would gladly give them their wives.
Unconditional Surrender
Hope you are doing as well as can be. Miss hearing your insights on Chicom naval threads.
My guess is their aircraft will be V/STOL. Nn need for catapults and wire landings. Used to be there were performance limitations on V/STOL aircraft . Don’t know if that still holds true. I do know the difficulty of landing on a carrier was a major reason for the Russkies not going in that direction.
If Iran or the Norks (the premise of the novel) launched one nuke from the gulf what would retaliation really matter to those affected by EMP. I doubt the EMP effect would be as devastating as portrayed in the novel but it would be, by far, the most destructive assault on the US in our history. A strategic launch of 6 spread from all three coasts would crippling. Trump signed an initiative to begin hardening vital assets but is now too busy defending himself from the enemy from within to really follow through.
The Russian VTOL aircraft didn’t actually work either.
The Chinese are operating copies of navalized MiG-29s off their carriers - they’re large ski-jump carriers... so far. They’re working on CATOBAR.
“I thought aircraft carriers were siting ducks and not part of the latest military naval technology.”
Maybe the Chicoms plan to slap around some third worlders neocon style.
Bill Kristol is going to be so jealous!
I saw a video somewhere, about the Chinese concentrating on building custom containers that can conceal all kinds of military weapons for use within the container. Easily transported, easily transferred between container ships and onto trucks or trains for delivery anywhere. On trucks, these containers become mobile missile and gun platforms. So I can see the day when a Chinese container ship offloads thousands of these deadly containers to spread mayhem. That's in addition to carrying troops.
Yup. Japan completely destroyed the Russian naval fleet. Humiliating Russia. Japan only had a few decades experience with modern ships.
[The truth is Chinese aircraft carriers suck like most of their military equipment. What they claim about the effectiveness of their platforms and weapon systems have never matched their true capabilities. Chinese stealth technology doesn’t work nearly as well as the US’s does; stealth, directed energy weapons and target data fusion are the technologies that are going to rule the next big war the world sees, and the US is way ahead in those technologies.]
[Hope you are doing as well as can be. Miss hearing your insights on Chicom naval threads.]
Thanks for pointing me to Jeff’s post.
Not state of the art, but still a critical strategic asset that allows the projection of power globally. The Chinese understand that having a viable carrier force gives them regional hegemony.
Carrier task forces are not as vulnerable as you may think. And there only a few countries that could pose a threat to Chinese carriers.
Yes. Just like giant ghost cities
Add that to the multiple food crises happening right now there
How much have we spent in Afghanistan trying to help the boy-rapists hold off the girls-school-bombers?
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