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Posted on 09/01/2025 10:09:58 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
China is not planning to launch one or two missiles at an aircraft carrier; it is planning to launch dozens, if not hundreds. The PLARF possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the world, with thousands of launchers. In a conflict, they would unleash a massive, coordinated salvo attack designed to overwhelm any defense.
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The communist party is in the middle of a huge power struggle.
Currently almost the entire senior staff of the PLA has been fired because they have supported on or the other of the factions of the CPC.
There is no chance for an invasion of Taiwan at the current time.
That won’t happen until the CPC unifies, restores the senior staff to the PLA and gives them some time to organize themselves.
That takes time.
Meanwhile trump has 150% tarriffs hanging over their heads. They are currently at 50%. If they invade Taiwan they are guaranteed to get 150% tarriffs from the USA.That will kill their economy.
How do the drones get to the aircraft carriers ?
Then we’d bomb them to smithereens. Tit for tat and all that.
“Something tells me our Aircraft Carriers are toast.”
They just don’t get the idea of attrition. They think because they have more people, they can survive a world war with all out nuclear attacks. (And they can’t) And if they hit the US fleet with such numbers, a prayer from everyone in the world is going to be a possible need. They’ll come out of their bunkers to find nothing and less over the next few months at which time they will die of starvation and thirst if not Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness. Little boy, loaded gun.
wy69
The aircraft carrier of today is in the same position as the battleship was in 1940.
Still very useful. But no longer at the top of the food chain. If the big shots realize this, we’re in good shape. But if not, there can be disasters ahead.
The silicon chip and the derivative technologies have made naval surface combatants and land armored vehicles obsolete death traps. Many brave young people will die before the world’s battleship admirals and calvary generals realize the new realities.
You sink a carrier, we take out the Three Gorges Dam with ICBMs.
Seems only fair.
Personally, I can think of all kinds of options for drone deployment, but they aren't really primarily discussing drones here, they are discussing missiles, but honestly, the breathless people who discuss it in these articles seem to be unaware that this has always been, and always will be a problem.
I have read a few excerpts from this "National Security Journal" and they all seem to have a common flavor to them.
Overestimating your enemy can as deleterious and paralyzing as underestimating them. It is best to do a sober analysis. Our military is as always, prone to fighting the last war, but it isn't as if they are waving away these threats. They are quite aware of them.
This article is laser focused on one thing: overwhelm any U.S. aircraft carrier group with possibly hundreds or thousands of missiles. I don’t doubt that China is capable of doing this. Just look at how many missiles and drones Russia launched against Ukraine after so called U.S. military experts said in the summer of 2023 that Russia doesn’t have enough missiles to strike Ukraine to continue punishing Ukraine at the same rate during the summer of 2023. What this article doesn’t cover is that once China launches all these missiles away, the United States have a fairly good idea where the missiles come from and could launch their own missiles at the area where the Chinese missiles originate. What is China’s defense then?
China is not planning to launch one or two missiles at an aircraft carrier; it is planning to launch dozens, if not hundreds. The PLARF possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the world, with thousands of launchers. In a conflict, they would unleash a massive, coordinated salvo attack designed to overwhelm any defense
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How did that work out for Japan?
China is not a long term military threat for the same reason Japan lost the war. China needs to import both coal and oil to keep the lights on. That coal and oil must travel into water controlled by nations not really friendly with China. A shut down of shipping of both imports and exports and China collapses.
If war broke out in the area those shipping lanes become a war zone and Chinese ships would be denied free passage.
So no, any talk of war with China is being used by leaders of national leaders to keep their citizens afraid.
If Trump is trying to help out his good friend dictator Xi, he’s doing a splendid job!
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the cpc is in the middle of a factional fight.
Xi is on the way out.
The chinese believe the sorry mf has run their country into the ground.
>Then we’d bomb them to smithereens. Tit for tat and all that.
Pretty much that. If it’s to the point they are trying to take out carriers and whatnot it’s already going nuclear because they never understood the rationale behind deterrence theory or mutual assured destruction. FAFO
National Security Journal is the mouthpiece of the MIC.
I am proud my son served our country as a Navy submariner. I am happy he is now out and pursuing hi E.E. degree. God bless our veterans and those services g in and supporting our military.
Seems only fair.
Why stop there?
Take out every damned dam in China.
The USN plans to stay out of range. The downside is that the strike fighters on the flight deck lack the range to reach Taiwan from a safe distance well east of the Philippines.
Meanwhile, let’s welcome upwards of a million new Chinese spies into our universities.
And they’ll stop after that, right?
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