“A/C carriers”
What’s that??? Air-Conditioned carriers???
Looks fellas, if yer gonna go back and forth on the keyboards, try to use a vernacular/nomenclature that doesn’t give potentially different interpretations of what you are trying to say...
One thing is for sure, our overall ability to project power has shifted, and nothing has been developed, politically, diplomatically, mechanically, or even tested to adjust our ability to conduct that global policy...
Other than to reduce its ability at its current capability...
An Aircraft Carrier is still a pretty hot ticket to have where you need it...But as some may understand it is a big target, yep, and our missions to keep it floating hasn’t changed...
the days of saturation attacks by multiple flights of bombers and ALCM’s, SLCM’s and other surface to surface systems is reduced globally, the tech has improved where that may no longer be necessary...
We countered those saturation attack plans with those nice AEGIS cruisers and destroyers back in the day...They did well to be able to handle that mission...Now our shields have new, higher traveling targets...And they are handling that mission...
I believe we can match the threat with weapons system upgrades to our existing stand-off weaponry, but its got to be actively pursued...
FReeper “Spktyr” brought up some good points as usual...
Our stors of deployable weapons may be down to a very low level, and with reloads being scare, what do we need to do???
Build more??? Sure...Build better, develop better??? You betcha...
How do we do that??? Congress, a NCA who knows how to get this tenant of governments purpose back in gear...That will probably not happen for a few years...
Also, lets not forget how you defend against systems that are not as good as your stuff??? You design your defense around how you defeat our stuff...Because lets face it, our stuff is better than theirs...
Spktyr may argue about that, and I’m cool with that disagreement, but my experience is we do practice that...And have for a long time...
Sure, the Russian stuff looks cool, they claim it works...The Chinese have Carrier busters...That’s important to know...
Do we just hope they don’t use it on us??? Sure...
But do you really think the ChiComs are gonna get in a shooting war with us, their bestus economic friend in this day and age???
Same thing with the Russians???
No, both sides are gonna duke it out with proxy conflicts and spats all over the place...
The only thing going on is a re-arranging of the chess board...
And not a lot is “not” known, or off the table...
Just another opinion of mine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M-54_Klub#/media/File:Club-K002.jpg
A quick reference picture...
Do you notice “how” the launching system is packaged???
Imagine someone buying it looking like that, and maybe integrating a nice “special” warhead on one or more launching out of that???
When you are trained to notice stuff like that
That’s the “rocket” system the Russians were shooting out of their ships VLS the other day...
This display caused me to think outside that box...
Just sayin’...
