The X-51 Waverider
Posted on 01/08/2011 6:26:40 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
The X-51 Waverider
I can’t think of a faster way for China to be destroyed than to take out one of our carriers.
Nice post. thanks for putting this article up.
For every measure, there is a counter, and a counter-counter ... and so on.
The question is, how long before our technology ‘falls’ into the hands of the Chicoms ... in return for $$$ and power.
you have to wonder if aircraft carriers are the new battleship. buy that i mean pre WW2 a lot of navies thought the big gun ship was the key startegic weapon. quickly they learned that the BB was largely obsolete except for some specific infantry and other support missions.
i cant help but htink that if there is a next big war, the aircraft carriers will be gone quickly either from small subs or missiles or nukes.
why would china bother with a conventional warhead and have to exactly target the ship when a nuke could do the same job and blanket a big area?
That idea has been debunked so many times it's pathetic.
WHAT is left unsaid is that a moderate sized nuclear weapon can sink a carrier. If a war goes nuclear it most likely will do it at sea.
So what if they do? What’s a gay communist Kenyan gonna do about it?
Maybe we shouldn’t have been so quick to dismantle our ICBM sites and depend on ships and subs.
I was thinking about this a couple of days ago. I hope we are ahead of the game.
Make that 36 times (for equivalent weight). Kinetic energy is 1/2 mv^2.
The carrier displaced the battleship because the carrier's air wing was a more precise way to both search for, and put ordnance on, a target from farther away.
Until such time that there is an even more precise way to put ordnance on target from even farther away, the carrier will continue to be viable in most battle scenarios.
The only exception would be all out thermonuclear war.
I like how these articles assume that carriers are our only means of offense or that they would be used first.
Despite the new missile technology, anyone stupid enough to take a shot at one of our Aircraft Carriers would meet their own end pretty quickly. Firing on a Capital warship is a overt act of war, and is equivalent to firing on US soil. If anyone were lucky enough to actually score a hit on a carrier, they could likely expect incoming ICBMs in retaliation.
The Chinese are thinking ahead. Sure, they’re building a full sized carrier for show, but they’re concentrating on building an armada of subs for go.
“I can’t think of a faster way for China to be destroyed than to take out one of our carriers.”
We’d have to wait until ObaMao is out of office.
Then the next round of super weapons stories start when the army of H1B and university grad students rush more technology to Red China . . . .
“I can’t think of a faster way for China to be destroyed than to take out one of our carriers.”
Um.. who is our President? He will probably call the park police to investigate and not give them a boat to get to the scene of the crime.
But don’t you see? If we get rid of all our military....everybody else will get rid of theirs too!/s
Carriers also project power - something the US can uniquely do.
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