Perversion Inc. All must work to raise the flag of Sodom and salute:
Posted on 03/23/2023 11:15:28 AM PDT by Duke C.
Don’t believe the hype.
LGBQ terrorists bringing fear to the nations who are ready to submit, yup
As the Sheffield found, even a subsonic missile that does not detonate can ruin your boat.
Do not bet on it. In the 80’s time frame, I was working to develop a target to simulate the Russian SS-N-22 Sunburn.
It was fairly well accepted the navy could not stop it. Closest target was a recycled Talos missile. That could not mimic the low altitude profile at all.
The CIWS could not even reliably stop the subsonic BQM-74 target. One hit a ship during a test and killed a guy. CIWS got confused and decided to engage the radar reflection off the water rather than the drone.
Sub crews used to call surface ships “targets.” Makes sense.
Do I need to put a
/sarcasm
tag on such obvious sarcasm, just for you?
Sheesh.
I wore a green jersey
“Some will probably get through. Maybe more than a few. War is always unpredictable.”
Wise words.
The armchair warriors around here need to understand that every battle plan fails once contact with the enemy begins.
Even with good technology there can be human error, equipment failure (due to factors such as faulty maintenance or construction or assembly) or failure to mobilize in a timely manner.
The new woke military means that things that used to be reliable can easily become error prone.
“Actually, I have, back during the F-14 era.”
CVAN-65, C&E shop 70’s
All this talk of hypersonic weapons threatening our naval forces in the Pacific has apparently forgotten something else that China was cooking up and which was reported several years ago — the CCP’s development of SRBMs that were designed to break our carriers in half with one shot. Maybe that also falls into the domain of ‘hypersonic weapons’, because coming down at re-entry speeds onto surface targets would definitely qualify.
The World of Warheads™ is a very secret industry. I spent years as a telemetry chief on those things, and I can say that no carrier can survive the detection, tracking, and impact of today’s warheads. System fusion is all part of it, too. There are capabilities in warheads to avoid counter weapons, and, if nuclear, getting close enough for teenage sex would still render a carrier inoperative. Carriers are for beating up smaller adversaries. Peer level adversaries would sink those things in the first few hours of any war, subs too. The MIC just loves the Navy.
I don’t want to argue hypotheticals - in theory these kinds of carriers are designed to be quite operational even when hit.
The point was in emphasis - even if successful. In Ukraine all these Kinzhals etc have proven themselves to be utter failures.
I am also reminded of Sen. Moynihan - he once recalled that after getting access to classified intelligence and real data he, to his complete surprise, discovered that never ever Russia was ahead of the US in missiles, neither in quality, nor in quantity, nor in technology.
USA constantly enjoyed a significant advantage - while, as Moynihan said, we all the time were fearing an imminent demise...
Perversion Inc. All must work to raise the flag of Sodom and salute:
Probably, I was not born dense, events twisted me this way.
How is China doing on sub vs sub tech? One would think a fleet losing its subs would be a problem for its carriers.
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