Posted on 04/25/2017 6:43:22 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
In the end, North Korea has an even bigger and more basic problem: It couldn't actually find a carrier if it wanted to. The country has shore-based radars, but those have limited range and a carrier can easily stay out of range. A carrier's aircraft and escorts will shoot down or sink any of North Korea's aircraft, drones, submarines, or surface ships before they gets with sensor range of the mother ship. While this isn't guaranteed in every scenario, North Korea's antiquated equipment is easily to detect.
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Never underestimate determination and improvisation. They have submarines with hydrophones. A CBG makes a lot of noise. A nuke exploded in the middle of which would do quite a bit of damage.
The decisions to incinerate Japanese cities were not made within days of the Pearl Harbor attack. They were made after 3 years of bloody, savage warfare and in the context of unsupportable (to Americans) losses on the battlefields in the Central and SW Pacific areas of operation. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, our war aims were to sweep the seas of the IJN and to thereby compel surrender to our long-term goals in East Asia.
I do not believe that Roosevelt would have ordered the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on December 8, 1941, and I bet you don't, either.
I hope you are right.
You are probably right. Un is not playing with a full deck so who knows what he might do.
“If true then how do they spot a carrier in the Sea of Japan if the satellite is over the U.S.?”
Well, prick, do you understand the concept of orbit, as in a satellite that orbits above the earth, which requires a trajectory that transverses across the surface of the earth?
I didn’t write anything about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But surely you have heard of the Doolitle raid, the 75th anniversary of which was celebrated last week. There was certainly civilian “collateral damage” from that attack on Tokyo, which was slightly more than four months after Pearl Harbor. From an article on historynet.com:
http://www.historynet.com/aftermath-doolittle-raid-reexamined.htm
“Even as crews were recovering American dead from Pearl Harbor’s oily waters, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was demanding that his senior military leaders take the fight to Tokyo. As Army Air Forces chief Lieutenant General Henry Arnold later wrote, ‘The president was insistent that we find ways and means of carrying home to Japan proper, in the form of a bombing raid, the real meaning of war.’”
That raid provoked the Japanese to attack Midway, and we know how that turned out for them.
Yep. Norks used a mini-sub to put a charge /torpedo beneath Cheonan's keel, amidships. Blew the vessel not just in half, but into three big pieces.
Might not sink a carrier -- but would render it hors de combat for years -- if not scrap it...
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