Everybody knows that battleships can never be sunk by aircraft. Battleships have dozens of AA guns that will shoot down any threat. Everybody knows this.
And paradigms never shift, and we are ten years ahead of our enemies, and because God is on our side, we will always win.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse
> Everybody knows that battleships can never be sunk by aircraft. <
The instant I read that tongue-in-cheek sentence, I thought of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse. And there you had a link to that very thing.
It’s sad how slow the brass learns. The Bismarck could not fend off air attacks. It was sunk months before the Prince of Wales and the Repulse sortied. Yet the Bismarck’s lesson was lost on the British Admiralty.
Arrogance + blindness, that’s a bad combination.
Far too many comic book kids out there. No experience.
Billy Mitchell demonstrated this was bs before half the crews on those two ships you refer to were even out of their diapers.
Why would God be on our side? We haven’t won a war since 1945, when our opponent were Nazis and the Japanese who believed their Emperor was a God.
Why would God be on our side? We haven’t won a war since 1945, when our opponent were Nazis and the Japanese who believed their Emperor was a God.
All this talk of hypersonic weapons threatening our naval forces in the Pacific has apparently forgotten something else that China was cooking up and which was reported several years ago — the CCP’s development of SRBMs that were designed to break our carriers in half with one shot. Maybe that also falls into the domain of ‘hypersonic weapons’, because coming down at re-entry speeds onto surface targets would definitely qualify.
How is China doing on sub vs sub tech? One would think a fleet losing its subs would be a problem for its carriers.