This is "hovering":
Regards,
Posted on 03/23/2023 11:15:28 AM PDT by Duke C.
When was the last time China’s navy ran into a civilian freighter, hm?
Still less than ONE F-35
Far too many comic book kids out there. No experience.
And the F-35s are generally kept below, lower down so their weight does not affect the carrier’s stability as much. F-35s on deck are literally transitory.
Even those with experience here sometimes seem to have their heads firmly stuck in the sand with their ideas of US capacities even more firmly locked into the Reagan era.
This is "hovering":
Regards,
They don’t shoot lead...
Excellent post.
We’re in a heap of trouble and to compound that fact, we have the very worst caliber of people in charge.
And we can sink ALL of the Russian aircraft carrier (actually, Russia's ONE aircraft carrier - the Admiral Kuznetsov - is designated as an aircraft-carrying cruiser).
Shouldn't be difficult to locate: Looks like it has already taken a hit!
We'll be able to sink it as soon as it completes its SIX YEARS of repair and "maintenance" work!
Regards,
Do you have a source on that? Because I do know that government contracts are alive and well at engineering schools. They are not exploring how to build better bridges.
You have obviously not served as an action officer in the Pentagon. We literally sat on our asses and did nothing when we fell behind in cyber warfare. And when the response was finally made, it was a snails pace, pieced together and woefully inadequate. When we detected inadequecies at the staff officer/SME level.....we couldn’t get it in because of the budget cycle and the staffing process wouldn’t allow it. They got one shot to build it-— and when the assumptions were off— the system couldn’t handle it. The SMEs didn’t come correct.
That is only one example. I have a half dozen more that just popped in my head.
Never underestimate the Pentagon to sit on their asses and watch the world go around. It’s an art form.
At a height of 10 feet, the horizon is 4 miles away. Something coming at mach 5 ( 3,805 mph ) will cover that distance in a little over one second.
That gives the laser system one second to acquire the missile, point the laser at it, GET WEAPONS RELEASE PERMISSION from the captain, shoot at it, and do enough damage to take it out.
Even if the captain has already given permission for the system to automatically fire upon anything moving faster than Mach 1, that's still not much time.
Not many captains will be willing to risk inadvertently shooting at a ghost signal and hitting a friendly or neutral.
just more kremlin propaganda.
“At a height of 10 feet, the horizon is 4 miles away. Something coming at mach 5 ( 3,805 mph ) will cover that distance in a little over one second.”
3805 / 3600 = 1 mile/sec
“At a height of 10 feet, the horizon is 4 miles away.”
Radar is much higher resulting in a detection distance of 15 to 20 miles.
Former USAF officer.
There is entirely too much presumption of default US technological superiority. I won’t add to that sentence because any addition will be met with what-about-this or what-about-that from those buried in the fundamental presumption.
At hypersonic velocities, a plasma effect evolves and there has been a great deal of exploration of plasma effect on electromagnetics. You can study the equations or you can just be aware of the words — plasma stealth.
Russia’s intel people are at least as good as the CIA. They do not fear US weapons or capability. I don’t generally care about stuff like 2014 Ukraine coup and Maidan this or that. I do care about capability and who believes what about capability. They do not fear NATO capability. This is somewhat conclusive.
Lighten up Francis. I believe you were able to understand the plain meaning of the phrase.
“At a height of 10 feet, the horizon is 4 miles away. Something coming at mach 5 ( 3,805 mph ) will cover that distance in a little over one second.”
Please source the capability to fly 3805 mph at 10 feet.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/07/02/navy-finally-pulls-plug-railgun.html
China’s railgun is currently undergoing sea trials.
Antisupercavitating torpedo defenses cancelled. Also, while the Russians, Indians and Chinese have supercav torpedoes working and on the world arms market, our program to do the same is a litany of failure.
Plenty more where those came from.
Ground/surface clutter reduces that quite a lot.
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