Posted on 04/15/2017 6:06:44 AM PDT by meatloaf
Monitor Drones-A 15” Dahlgren cannon, on a drone with a turret!
Unsinkable floating concrete islands that can be towed into place and used as airfields.
Ships that can rapidly deploy multiple surface drones with short-range anti-aircraft missiles that can serve as skirmishers and that can carry one or more torpedoes and/or serve as kamikaze strike vessels. Rapidly deploted subsurface drones that can serve as skirmishers for anti- sub duty, including warhead/kamikaze capability.
Read Arlie Burke's notes and replay his speeches for hints what an expert would do and by all means keep Congress and demonicrats out of the process.
First step: expel ALL employees either born overseas, or born of foreign parents, or with any foreign relatives, from the DoD, and from any projects working on the ship, whatsoever.
Good thinking, 70 years ago.
A modernized battleship might be the only thing that could survive the current generation of anti-ship missiles. Everything else is just a target.
I want a Phalanx mounted on top of my house...
I’d like to see the carrier, or the whole group, surrounded by hundreds of very small and fast drones. Each of the drones would be armed with .50 cal gatling guns, some kind of missile defense, and torpedo detection with counter measures. The drones would operate in a hive-like structure, sending info to one another about any and all threats to the carrier, instantaneously deciding which drone or drones would engage the threat/s. I like this concept for a couple of reasons. One, incoming threats could initially be dealt with farther from the carrier, and two, a system like this could engage many many threats simultaneously, such as a ‘swarm’ type attack, all done with very little human involvement.
First, kick out all faggots, liberals, & shitbirds who think the USN is a social project.
I have posted it before. Buy a bunch of 300,000T tankers sitting idle off Singapore, battleship armor the entire aft superstructure, fill the outboard storage tanks with fuel or water for “armor”, add a flight deck for helos and VTOL and fill the rest of the center section with VLS: anti-ship missiles, T-LAM, New ASROC, SA-6. Hard to sink, a lot of firepower, and plenty of fuel. not fancy so the admirals will.not like it, not new so congress and contractors will not like it but ask a sailor if he would rather run over a mine in this or an LCS.
* Sonar-evading subs that fire cruise missiles
* Missile-shielded islands (man-made if needed) close to the Islamo-fascists and Norks - ready to free up sea lanes, establish air superiority when needed, and fly in Special Ops [put the troops in those hell-hole nations only briefly for missions, then get out]
Aircraft carriers are ok, but may become, or already are, too easy of a target without countermeasures that make them have diminishing returns.
Great to hear!
Do you have a problem with raccoons getting in your garbage or JW’s knocking on your door?
double hull catamaran modular design - available in 3 to 5 hull size configurations.
Mid level and higher customized to meet the mission / intent of the ship.
swapable power and water generation plants
Military history is filled with examples of quality vs. quantity. If a military strays too far in one direction, they become vulnerable to the other direction.
In WWII, a large portion of our navy was in small attack boats, and they, and their crews, were seen as “expendable.” Not just PT boats, but all the way up to destroyer class, could be lost without “compromising the mission” of the larger naval group to which they belonged.
Since today we no longer have the inclination or manpower to do this, the assumption must be to use surface and subsurface drone vessels.
The smallest of these vessels should be focused on high speed, and maybe have a single weapons system. But different boats could have many different weapons systems among them and work together as a fleet. All by remote control and artificial intelligence.
Larger vessels to take on the patrol boat mission in littoral and riverine operations. And the largest, up to the old destroyer sized, could act as mid sized air drone launch and recovery, for coastal reconnaissance and attack.
Build a mega floating island thats at least a mile long.
It would have skyscraper tall towers for railguns or other line of sight weapons. High enough that they would reach past the curvature of the earth, plus it protects the base from similar counter laser or railgun much lower that cannot shoot past the horizon at sea level.
Nothing else. Minimal manpower onboard, not really a ship but does have propulsion, definitely can handle the largest aircraft. Just a psychological point of extreme power.
Like a floating Death Star. But with no exhaust port weakness.
No, but it’s like the old joke:
A cop pulled a woman and noticed she had a .45, shotgun, AR 15, an M1A, a .38 revolver and a several knives.
He asked what she was so afraid of to which she replied “Nothin”...
Just wanna be prepared...
If you’re talking about the aluminum boats that cost the Navy twice what a modern frigate costs, be advised, they are not to be deployed to any waters featuring mid-level or worse intensity.
Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXw8bKzxocg
Air power is the thing. Surface ships — even the fastest — are dead meat once detected by aircraft. Right now we’re packing more anti-aircraft missiles onto the ships, but even if they work 95% of the time, the leakage will result in a lost ship. We’re going to lose ships.
We need to look at giving each vessel the ability to put up a screen of kamikazee Artificial-Intelligence drones to protect themselves. Fire them off like chaff launchers. This way you could have a small-deck aircraft carrier for AWACs drones that would need to be recovered between missions. Let the others fall into the water after they expend their fuel.
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