Posted on 06/03/2017 3:00:14 PM PDT by Daffynition
When you want to send an international message that can’t be missed, you send an aircraft carrier. When you want to put up a neon sign, you send two. And yesterday, the U.S. Navy did just that, by confirming that the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike groups had joined up off the Korean coast
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I think the boys at the Pentagon have this figured out.
B2s will take out radar, communications and power before the NORKs know what happened.
Napalm, daisy cutters and AC130 mini guns will take care of that.
Little birdy told me it might be a big 4th of July this year in NK.
Tomahawk Cruise missiles were originally designed to take 5-200 kt nuclear warhead.
Prayers up for your loved ones and their shipmates.
Would the Israeli Iron Dome work in Seoul ?
Donald J. Trump knows how to send a message.
They are already calling it the *Trump Armada*.
“Napalm, daisy cutters and AC130 mini guns will take care of that.”
Not one of those items is in the current inventory, sadly. Almost all cluster bombs have also been removed, courtesy of BO.
The current AC-130Ws have a 30mm rotary cannon, Hellfire missiles, and Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs). That may be effective, but it’s a whole lot less cost effective than the 105mm, 40mm, and 20mm mix.
North Korea has one of the most extensive cave networks in the world - including at the DMZ. Don’t underestimate your enemy.
I really don’t mean to build NK up, but some realism is in order. Millions of fanatical troops, supported by substantial artillery, armor and nuclear weapons are nothing to take lightly.
The DOD has spent decades solving the nk arty problem and I suspect that they have minimized the ability of those nk cannons to effectively hit Seoul.
“I hope war can be avoided, simply because many thousands of innocents would certainly die. It also could result in WW III depending on exactly how things play out.”
We all hope that a war is avoided, but I do remember the same thoughts were expressed when a certain European leader continually provoked the powers at the time and raced his troops into the Alsace-Lorraine, Czechoslovakia, etc ... and that hesitation to deal with the situation early on lead to millions of deaths.
It a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
Speak softly and carry a Carrier Task Group (or 2 or 3....)
Just like last time.
Thanks guys, forgot about the phase of the moon, and yea, if we are going to start a war we need Marines.
There is art east one LHD w/ MEU in the vicinity.
Thank you. We pray for them all. It’s hard as they all may be going into Harms Way.
Lil Kimmie is soiling his thong about now ...
Might be a short blip with a fast turnaround - and an even rosier outlook.
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