Sink an aircraft carrier. It becomes a hot war. Obama has no say. Field commanders annihilate China. Are they that stupid?
I know the Keyan idiot is, but is China? Then again they are commies which means they’re stupid.
Well, why not? American has elected a weak, apologetic appeaser twice now. Why shouldn’t our enemies get in our face and start pushing the boundaries? Obama and his administration are far more concerned with social engineering in the Armed Forces than national defense anyway. And I think he actually prefers a weakened America, because after all, it’s not fair to the rest of the world that we’re so powerful and prosperous.
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.......I’m no Admiral but I don’t think I would take a 5-10 billion dollar asset with 5,000 personnel on board within range of this missile while hoping and praying that our anti-missile missile would protect me. And, this is to say nothing of all the ships that accompany a carrier.
And, if BB ordered me to, I think I would resign right then and there.
This does beg the question of whether or not these hugely expensive carriers are still viable in 21st Century warfare.
More worried about shore to ship batteries the Chinese developed, sold to Iran and now threaten our big blue water ships operating in the narrow Persian Gulf.
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I don’t know what the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is doing right now, but if they can just come up with a slap-dash design for a *simple* ship, that only needs to do *one* thing well, they need to do so right now.
That ship needs to have a nuclear reactor, which requires significant design elements, and two independent energy “guns” that can take down missiles. It doesn’t have to do *anything* else. No bells and whistles. No missiles or other weapons of its own.
And it never strays from the aircraft carrier task group.
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China’s been our designated manufacturing producer for decades, while American working class men (the real American men) have been falsely accused and robbed. There are consequences for the wrongs committed by the socially pathological political/regulator class: default, weaknesses against foreign enemies and others.
During the next few years, remember how you treated fathers and men.
Hopefully a SM-3 + AEGIS can take it out.
The Chinese cannot be sure it cannot. Deterrence.
China to build second, larger carrier - report
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/china-navy-carrier-idUSL3N0DA9BT20130424?feedType=RSS&feedName=industrialsSector&rpc=43