Posted on 12/27/2019 2:10:37 PM PST by Mariner
A Chinese admiral and pundit told a trade-show audience that Beijing could resolve China's territorial disputes by sinking two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and killing thousands of American sailors.
Rear Adm. Lou Yuan's threat isn't an empty one. The Chinese military has deployed an array of weaponry that it acquired specifically to target American flattops.
But a U.S. Navy test in 2005 proved that even if you hit them, carriers are really hard to sink.
Lou made his provocative comment on Dec. 20, 2018 at the Military Industry List summit, according to media reports.
“What the United States fears the most is taking casualties,” declared Lou, an anti-American author, social commentator and military theorist at the PLA Academy of Military Science...
..."The ship was pummeled by explosions both above and below the waterline," The War Zone reporter Tyler Rogoway explained in 2018. "After nearly four weeks of these activities, the carrier was scuttled. On May 14, 2005, the vessel's stern disappeared below the waterline and the ship began its voyage to the seafloor."
"America stood up to four weeks of abuse and only succumbed to the sea after demolition teams scuttled the ship on purpose once and for all, it's clear that America was built to sustain heavy damage in combat and still stay afloat."
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And by the way, i am openly calling for (at the very least) the imprisonment of the US admiral who admitted to a chinese general there is litttle to no armor on the bottom of our carriers. Stupid at the least, and traitorous at best.
Are Rods-from-God operational?
An interesting and true point. This can be seen in other weapon designs, i.e. the Zero fighter. No self sealing fuel tanks, no armor behind the pilot, poor survivability.
Logistics was another neglected aspect of war fighting for the Japanese.
The Americans were all about logistics, damage control, survivability (why spend thousands training a naval aviator to throw their lives away), and, in the end, applied physics.
I dunno. But, man, they oughta be, right?
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