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No picts? I wanted to see fish swimming out of their portholes!
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Do you post articles of this sort (asia-pacific military matters)? If you do, please put me on your ping list.
agreed........he knows which side his sushi is buttered on...I heard a great critique on the Chinese Navy by that ambassador turned Fellow at a righty think tank.......he basically said they have numbers but are really crap on the seas and haven't had a major engagement on the oceans since one of those long ago dynasty's......said the U.S. could take them in a matter of weeks easily......
One Clinton legacy we need to be grateful for is the rearming of Japan. Before Clinton came on the scene, Japan largely entrusted their protection to the U.S. military. Once it became clear that Clinton was owned by the ChiComs, Japan was morivated to build a military worthy of the world's second biggest economy.
Are we playing the "Japan Card" to stop China from saber rattling?
A meaningless statistic. The great increase in the size of carrier aircraft since WWII means a ship of this size has very little potential as an "aircraft carrier". Even the small VTOL carriers of the Brits are over 20,000 tons.
You flyers of Imperial Japanese Navy.
Your mission is to take your planes, fly into bridge of American ships, sink them and win war for Glorious Japanese Empire.
Are there any questions?
Yes, Osaki in the back row!
"Sir. Are you out of your F***ing mind?"