Posted on 03/10/2016 2:45:54 PM PST by zeestephen
How fast can the American industrial base replace units that are lost in combat?
I think there is only one shipyard that makes full sized carriers.
All of the Interstate Highway bridges seem to be named for politicians or Highway Patrol troopers.
It's what politicians do...
The stupidity and arrogance of the USS Carl Vinson, USS Gerald Ford, USS Ronald Reagan, and USS George HW Bush have made the USS Charles Rangel, the USS William J Clinton, the USS Harvey Milk and the USS Barack Obama inevitable.
Missile tech and stealth are only going to get better. Kinetic, particle, and laser weapon time horizons are well within the service life of this carrier. I’m not saying we don’t need machines like this, only we should not put too many eggs in one basket.
Hopefully, someone has thought of installing combined GLONASS/GPS receivers...
While lasers help this problem, they are not the total solution. The detection of these relatively small missiles will require improvements in the detection equipment as well as the ability to calculate incoming vectors and then activate responses.
Ever the offense vs defense model.
Re: “How fast can the American industrial base replace units that are lost in combat?”
This carrier will take roughly 3 years from laying the keel to final sea trials, which actually seems pretty fast to me.
I’ll guess the nuclear power plant probably took longer than three years to construct and test.
Including all the aircraft and trained crew, several years at least.
And, someone has to pay for it all, too.
Hopefully, it will be an impressive psychological weapon that nobody ever wants to test or antagonize.
The US is unable to produce the military hardware it needs
We are back to pre World War II
Obama has destroyed everything
With the GOPS help
Garbage scow?
There will be other more effective ways of creating air superiority over huge swaths of ocean.
Smaller, faster, lighter manned "drone carriers" for example. Machines can take G-Forces that Pilots simply can't. Machines don't require the logistics that humans require.
They will also eventually make machine soldiers so that the Aristocratic powers who control us now can more easily subdue us and bend us to their will.
They finally got it working? I read awhile ago they were still having problems with it.
Serious question: would the laser system be able to knock down multple missiles...say fired in line just seconds apart? Would the explosion of the first missile blind the second or third?
The Navy should go back to conventional carriers. Same offensive punch for a lot less money.
Ah-ha...someone gets it. These things take years to build. We could never fight a conventional war like WWII again.
As a Navy Veteran who has served on Aircraft Carriers, I think their time has come and gone. Better served with smaller ships with UAV’s. Hypersonic cruise missiles are hard to neutralize.
Maybe that’s the way to go. More ships, spread out the risk.
A conventional carrier takes half the time to build and the crew training is much easier. I would say the 5 or so CV’s in moth balls could be reactivated fairly fast.
This is my thinking. Hardware is getting cheaper and more powerful. There will come a time where you can throw away a million drones for the cost of one Aircraft carrier.
I have long worried that Google-Reich will eventually enslave or kill us trouble makers who believe in freedom.
Google owns Boston Dynamics.
I would say a 50/50 mix of CV and CVNs.
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