Posted on 01/14/2024 10:43:06 AM PST by Kazan
Do you get paid for your posts? Or a least get to snuggle with some cute KGB agent?
More nonsense from Sonar21's propagandists. There is no need to force the Houthis to surrender, and the USA has plenty of bombs to rain down on them as needed.
That's a misleading, stupid question - a red herring.
What's dividing people is YET ANOTHER deep-state/MIC military action in a 3rd world sh**hole. Tell us the end-game this particular action, Mr. neocon.
Bkmk
What part of the USA supports the Houthis?
Its a stupid question. No part of the USA supports the Houthis
But that's not the issue, and you know it, with your asinine rhetorical questions.
Bachelor in Journalism, she’s well-prepared for modern military challenges, no doubt.. she clearly was taught how to write and, hopefully, read..
Again why do US Navy supply ships call on Indian Island munitions depot? For fun? RR&R? Too crowed at Bremerton?
Essentially, all modern navies have gone to VLS, and with the size of long range air defense missiles, no one is reloading them at sea. We do still reload our smaller non-VLS systems underway.
Then who made the reloading at sea YT videos aboard Navy ships?
Stephen Bryen
Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute
Now, perhaps, you can tell us why you know more than Mr. Bryen.
Johnson been absolutely spot-on on the failed proxy war in Ukraine, which has been total failure.
And Johnson has been consistently wrong on Ukraine. He's constantly claimed the war was over, Ukraine defeated. He missed Russia's retreat from Kyiv. He missed Russia's loss in the Kharkiv offensive. He called the Kherson offensive a failure until Ukraine captured Kherson and forced Russia over the Dniepro River. He clearly overestimates Russia's capabilities. Everything he writes is anti-US, Anti-Israel, Anti-Ukraine, Pro-Russia, Pro-Hamas, Anti-capitalism. He was even invited by Russia to speak at a "multi-polarity" conference to bash the USA in Moscow, with Joe "Valery Plame's Husband" Wilson.
To show just how deep Johnson's hate for the west goes (all the way back to Christopher Columbus), here's a quote from his anti-American screed in Moscow, where he stopped just short of giving Putin a blowie, at least in public.
"We are blessed to live in a watershed moment in history. We are witnesses to the end of the era of the Western Colonial empires. This era began with Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama setting off to “discover” the world in the late 15th century. In the ensuing 6 centuries the nations of Europe battled with themselves and others for control over territory in North and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In the process they subjugated and, at times, enslaved, the inhabitants of nations we now call the Global South. I refer to this period as the era of the European Empires because, notwithstanding the internal battle for dominance among Portugal, Spain, France, England, Germany, all of these countries shared a common goal of exploiting foreign resources and populations for their own national benefit."You have to read it all to fully appreciate his hate for democracy, capitalism and the west. https://sonar21.com/my-speech-to-a-seminar-on-multipolarity/
Which ships exactly? What exactly were they loading? When did they do it?
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The Ticos and Flt I Arleigh Burkes had cranes that could be used for reloading at sea, but I have never seen VLS canisters transferred by unrep. We did use our crane to move some missiles (while underway) a couple times when we had a VLS module fail. On later ships, the Navy got rid of the cranes, as they took up 3 missile cells each, or 6 total.
Since a CVN deploys with 3 or 4 Aegis ships, allowing one or two to sprint to port to reload is acceptable. Even if we did unrep VLS canisters, it would require calm seas. I’ve reloaded hundreds of missiles into VLS dockside, and it takes a day to load a 61 cell launcher under ideal conditions. When unrepping, you would have to first offload the empty canisters to the AOE, prepare/configure the launchers for new missiles and load them as they are transferred. All this with 3,000+lb, 25’ long missile canisters that have to be transferred, moved on deck, lifted vertically and slid into the launcher. Anything but calm seas would make it an extremely dangerous evolution.
People want an Air Defense Destroyer/Cruiser to be a master of all trades. Air Defense for a CVN Battle Group, ASW for CVN Battle Group, Anti Surface Strike, Area Ballistic Missile Defense, Long Range Shore Strike, Naval Shore/Air Gunnery. A Cruiser/Destroyer can only carry so much ordinance, and Ticos/Burkes are nearly “Armory Ships” as configured. They are already carrying over a hundred missiles in VLS, 8 Harpoons, 11 RAMs (+ reloads), a dozen or more MK 54 Torpedoes, 600/1200 rounds of 5” gun ammo, plus 25mm, CIWS, .50 cal and more, not to mention armed helos with additional torpedoes and anti-surface capabilities.
From a strike and long range air defense standpoint, more cells would be great. From a self defense standpoint, the new ESSM Blk 2 is a huge improvement that has largely solved any desire for more self defense missiles. Loading 32 cells with these gives you 128 medium range missiles with 30+ miles range and active radar guidance in just 1/3 or 1/4 of your cells, leaving plenty of room for SM-6 for long range air defense/hypersonic strike, SM-3 for Ballistic Missile defense, Tomahawks/LRASM for strike/anti-ship, and ASROCs for ASW. SSGN subs in a CVN Strike Group can carry a 154 Tomahawks, freeing up VLS cells on surface combatants for air defense.
The biggest problem is our silly reticence to kill humans and “civilians.” We should be using napalm, white phosphorus, depleted uranium on Houthis whenever they gather together such as these silly Soviet-style parades they have had lately. We should unleash the Saudis to do far worse on the ground. Mass causality events. We should be sinking an Iranian ship every time Yemen launches an attack on anything. At sea, in port, all fair game. Run out of ships? Take out the Mullahs or presidential Palace in Tehran. The West is so meek. It was not always so.
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