Unless you are in the business of building ships.....................
Sort of a sinking ready jobs program I suppose. Makes perfect sense to most government thinkers.
Well, we spent a lot on battleships prior to WWII. The leadership always prepares for the last war. We were fortunate 75 years ago in that we could quickly manufacture aircraft carriers. If we suddenly need to make whatever replaces or displaces aircraft carriers we could be in trouble as we no longer make much steel.
Electro motive launching systems are fubar and unreliable. It will cause many crashes and deaths of aviators.
The 2002 Millennium Challenge proved that carriers were extremely vulnerable.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020906-iraq1.htm
Dude! It means lots of retirement jobs for Admirals and others involved in procurement. Get your priorities straight!
Will the designers of the Little Crappy flammable Ships
be used?
Or the ones who designed the F-35 guardian’s range to be
half the distance required to get to, and take out,
the Iranian (Obama’s) Silkworms?
WAKE UP, AMERICA.
We need cruisers with a big punch good speed and long range.
The Zumwalt class destroyer is another example. They were going to build 32 but now only 3. The most expensive destroyer ever built. 22.5 Billion for 3 ships.
Long-range Hypersonic antiship missiles used to be incredibly expensive. that is not true today.
even very poor coastal countries can now afford these missiles.
the new carriers are valuable only if they have new long-range robotic aircraft which keep the carriers very far offshore beyond the range of such missiles.
Production of those new robot aircraft was cancelled.
our carriers are vulnerable because they cant loiter super far offshore, manned aircraft don’t have the required range.
If oasshole keeps poking the russians in syria we will find out how vulnerable a carrier is in projecting force.
Drones and submarines waging war in the future? How do they take territory?
I remember when Sen. Gary Hart wanted to build much smaller aircraft carriers during the Reagan years.
Then Navy Secretary John Lehman called them, “Gary Hart carriers.”
Designing ships around the F-35. Utterly idiotic. Besides the 35 being a national embarrassment and giving us the weakest air wing in US history, traditionally the plane had to adapt to the ship.
One does not attack a carrier. One may, if one is crazy enough, attack a carrier group but is almost certain suicide and will remain so for a very long time.
Mach 7
300 mile range
Pinpoint 50 pound projectile
Explosive warhead unnecessary ..sheer energy transfer extremely destructive
And that’s just for now
And rapid fire
How can any force projection tool known at this point in history thwart or withstand it
Not for the defense contractors - nor for the politicians they own and operate.