Image of a Liaoning carrier group in 2014
Image of a Liaoning carrier group in 2014
But it really doesn’t matter whether Boeing makes airplanes in America or China. /s
Ping
“Quantity has a quality of its own.” — The Red ChiComs will flood the Pacific with naval forces, thanks to the $550B+ annual trade surplus with the USA. The Gomers spend a huge portion of GDP on their military. They’ve sold us the rope with which we are hanging ourselves. GHWB never should have unlinked human rights with trade; one of the biggest foreign policy FUBARs ever.
Blockading it with two or three carrier fleets and some Marine Expeditionary Forces would be a good start.
Ed
Scaredy cat Ted said last night he would send out more of our fleet to counter their fleet, and he doesn’t seem like a military tactician at all, just somebody with military toys at his fingertips. He wants war to satisfy his special interest donors. Its the truth.
War creates jobs, but does it have to?
And bill clinton helped
They’ve had 7 years to plan it so might as well go through it. No consequences from our end.
The US has over 100 years experience with aircraft carriers, and it matters. The Japanese built very high quality aircraft carriers, but did not have as many lessons, and it cost them a war.
In a “chicken and egg” paradox, to make a carrier work you need a crew very experienced with operating a carrier, working in orderly concert at all times. And you must have exemplary damage control, or little problems become disasters in short order.
So how do you create a carrier that works?
An hour later, you have to re-float them.
Any bets on whose carriers get blown up first in a China v. US war?
I was just thinking how I’d like to read a sukhoi-30mki post this morning. Keep them coming.