The two-week Balikatan operation will also see the militaries execute a drill to blow up a mock target warship in the South China Sea - a move that could incur China's wrath. Look for a Filipino ship launching. That sends the message. The Chinese know we can do it.
Cold War stuff. It was never really over.
A single Arleigh Burke destroyer is a fearsome weapon, capable of taking on multiple targets, from ships, to subs, to incoming anti-ship missiles, to aircraft simultaneously. They can even intercept ballistic missiles if carrying the right load out. And that’s one ship; we have many of them.
Of course, the one sad caveat is that this all holds true assuming some woke tranny doesn’t steer the ship into the nearest oil tanker first.