In the age of missles and electronics, are navy warships little more than floating coffins? Can defenses cope against overwhelming numbers let alone hypersonics? The old plan to fight the last war syndrom. Or am I foolishly mistaken?
It’s worse than that. In a peer-to-peer conflict our massive weapon systems can never be used. It takes 12 years as $13 billion to build a new carrier. The only time you can let them out of port is when they have a 0% chance of being lost.
Targeting isn’t as simple as some here believe. Most missiles can’t differentiate between an aircraft carrier and a car carrier, and there are significantly more merchants on the seas than military ships. Try to track a DDG in a gaggle of fishing boats - they all have the same RCS.
In the age of hyper-sonic bullets are soldiers obsolete?
Yes you are. The PLAN gets one "surprise attack" at the very beginning. After that the US Navy will operate on a war time footing. Another thing is most civilians think that our navy ships are made of paper machete and are fragile things. They are most definitely not. Ship are designed to be damaged repaired and return to battle. Also ships are designed to be upgraded with new systems too.
The biggest threat is the general de industrialization of the USA and the lack of Naval repair facilitates. This short sighted Free Trade BS is the biggest threat. Thanks Free Traitor™ for nothing...