Posted on 03/23/2023 11:15:28 AM PDT by Duke C.
Ground clutter. Airborne radar has an altitude ‘floor’ it can see through only with difficulty if at all.
There’s nowhere to put more than the installations we already have on the destroyers we’ve got. In fact, we built about a decade or so of destroyers with the forward CIWS mount deleted. Because we’re idiots.
The Kinzhal is currently being used up in the Ukraine war against civilian targets.
Unless your admiral is privy to US Navy weapons and radars specifications, he’s talking through his hat. And he basically takes Russian mil-prop and assumes it works, and that they have any remaining. To make more they need the West to lift sanctions.
When country is scraping the bottom of the tank barrel with T-54/55s, it does not say much for the rest of their dwindling arsenal.
Everybody knows that battleships can never be sunk by aircraft. Battleships have dozens of AA guns that will shoot down any threat. Everybody knows this.
And paradigms never shift, and we are ten years ahead of our enemies, and because God is on our side, we will always win.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse
How close we are to this point in time is a subject of opinion.
Then you should not have said what you did in your first post on this.
Thank you for the clarification.
No one should trust the lives of over 5,000 crew on a carrier with arrogant assumptions.
Don't even need hypersonics, just lots of ballistic missiles. But with hypersonics you can take them out in port without collateral damage.
This isn't WWII.
> Never, never, underestimate any enemy. <
The West has always underestimated Asian powers. And that never went well. A prime example of that is the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and 1905. Little upstart Japan knocked the snot out of Imperial Russia.
Oops. Maybe I shouldn’t have said “And that never went well.” The West did win the Opium Wars (something that angers China to this day).
No one should trust the lives of over 5,000 crew on a carrier with arrogant assumptions.
To assume they are detectable with no seconds to spare is dangerous.
Kinetic energy at these and higher velocities is a stone cold b*tch. Once a mach-15 projectile hits something solid, it basically converts to energy. Depending on design, it can be an all devouring lance of plasma.
Even at slower speeds, KE can get you amazing bunker busting. Look at the GBU-28 for a very old example of how that works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-28
Yesterday I watched footage hours old of a million dollar HIMARS that destroyed a retired couple’s home, blowing off the leg of his poor wife. Doubt she’s still alive. Our money well spent, hey Renfrew?
So far the supposedly unstoppable Russian military hasn't managed to defeat Ukraine, which until recently was not considered even a top 10 military power in the world.
I’m glad you’re not responsible for the lives of any of our troops.
Alex Krainer is the author of Grand Deception: The Truth about Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russian Sanctions
Very good post.
I am confident that our folks at Cal and MIT have been working on this for years.
I cannot imagine the military leadership sitting on their asses, wringing their hands about how these smart Russians beat us.
When assessing risks you cannot assume that there is no countering action. I see that mistake made on FR all the time. Just because the countermeasures aren’t found on Yahoo News, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
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You’d fit right in with the 1945 Germans, thinking that wunderweapons are going to be deployed soon, saving them from the Russians and Americans who are advancing daily.
Hate to tell you, but NO, they haven’t as those programs were all cancelled.
I would think there would be a wee bit of real estate on the side of an aircraft carrier that’s a 1,000’ long.
“They can sink ALL of the U.S. aircraft carriers, all at once”
Until they’ve actually been battle-tested, nobody can say whether such a claim will turn out to be true or not.
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