a carrier-based strike from the far side of the island.."
It would be a real shame if their carrier ran into a mk50.
It would be a real shame if their carrier ran into a mk50.
I keep wondering: What if the war has already started, but no one has noticed?
just coincidentally happens
Chicoms don’t want to commit suicide but they want to put up their fur so others give them what they want.
It’s not like Taiwan won’t nuke Shanghai.
I find what is happening Fassxinating.
unfortunately not unexpected
A straits of T. battel would be over economically in about 40 minutes.
USN/British attack submarines would use the expensive ammo on the high tech flagships and escape at depth and at 35kts flank faster than the surface screeners can turn. The under reporting of how good the free islands surface to surface missles are picking out chinese combatants is under reported. China is just giving away electronic warfare infomation every time they go to sea in force. With the top 5% of the chines’ navy taken out the rest runs for the protection of home port as the T air force runs a 36 hour war on every boat in the strait while the chinese air force is gamed around with flights of US Navy recon drones and EF-18s. The battlefield information system of the good guys in that part of the world is epic good.
Lots of poor hardware has gone against the USN over the past 50 years, beyond ROI mistakes, Floating Mines, or Watch Mistakes, name a significant hit?
A MK 50 is NOT going to sink a carrier.
The Chinese were emboldened by the Biden Administration”s failure to react quickly and defensively when those wobbly Spy Balloons drifted over our country. Some were shot down but only after they had absorbed and transmitted data about our military bases.
Taiwan has always kind of existed on the edge.
If the Taiwanese are so naive as to deny the likelihood that the ccp has so totally infiltrated the island over 30+ years that they can take it in 24 hours, they deserve what’s coming and it’s not worth a DROP of US blood or a penny’s worth of effort.
Hell, it’s what they’re doing here, too.
I think China would have a really tough time taking Taiwan. Taiwan has a lot of ways to resist and I think Japan would join the fight even before the US.
After that China would face massive sanctions and boycotts. This would hurt them much more than Russia. Everyone needs oil and will cheat sanctions to get it. Nobody needs McDonald’s toys that much.
In addition, China gets 85% of their oil from the Persian Gulf. That could be blockaded by the US, Japan, or India and China couldn’t do anything about it unless they wanted to go nuclear.
Should China start massing an invasion fleet, expect Taiwan to announce they are a nuclear power.
Taiwan could go nuclear over a long weekend.
And Biden is in Ireland being completely useless as usual.
Elections have consequences.
Apparently nobody in the White House has taken notice.
Chairman Xi is playing Chairman Kim Jong Un
It would be a real shame if their carrier ran into a mk50.
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All 3 of them.
MK 48 Mod 7 CBASS torpedo is the one to use against surface threats like a carrier. 650lb warhead. Spread of 4 should do the trick on non-US carriers.