Posted on 04/16/2025 5:02:05 PM PDT by McGruff
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/16/pentagon-chief-believes-chinese-hypersonics-could-destroy-us-carriers/
We can destroy a really big dam of theirs.
The only way China, or anyone, destroys the US is from inside.
Get the hint?
hyper sonic is one thing... targeting at hypersonic speed is something else. I admit I’m not savvy on all things military weapons but hitting ships is considered pinpoint accuracy. anyone ever heard of that ability with chicom hyper sonics??
I guarantee that if China lans this they will cease to exist as a nation. Also the US has some ability that can counter what China has. B
Thanks, free traitors.
I have been worried about this for the last few years. I would be ferried if one of my daughters were stationed on a carrier. At this point anti-ship weaponry is far superior to anti-missile defense. Also drones. I know they are slow moving but they are cheap and when massed some will get through. It’s a percentage tactic and our carriers are on the wrong side.
Beyond me why the hell they would be advertising this.
3,307 pounds sounds like a pretty big payload (assuming it’s real) but is it enough to sink a super-carrier?
Terrified not ferried
You have to read between the lines.
“China could sink entire US carrier fleet in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns”
I’ll take Pete’s word for it, since we haven’t done JACK in the past 35 years after ‘winning’ the Cold War, other than attack 3rd World countries and retrofit nuclear submarines for trannies.
Bottom line - we may have ‘sat on our lead’ for 35 years, but the rest of the world DID NOT sit on their butts, as we’re also learning, the hard way, in Ukraine.
Since Aircraft carriers are “Old school”
technology that is to be expected.
I’m sure we have weapons systems to fight naval wars a little differently these days.
Besides If they did that, China will be reduced to a Feudal system with local warlords in a matter of minutes.
I’d happily sacrifice a few Democrat cites in the exchange.
China’s rulers are not idiots, but they are extremely ideological.
It is hard for many to see what they would gain with a war with the United States, their biggest customer.
However... Back a dictator into a corner, and he may do very stupid things...
I have been posting on this topic for years—with no clearances at all—just reading publicly available sources.
The only folks who can’t seem to figure it out are the “experts” who want to build more carriers.
3K pound warhead? Yeah that will sink a carrier, particularly if it hits it at 3.5K mph. In fact if it hit it at that speed with only a tungsten warhead that might be enough to sink it.
There is still a use for aircraft carriers, just as there was still a use for battleships into the early 1990s.
It is a huge mistake to plan for the next war based on technology from the last war. Most generals and admirals don’t seem to understand that.
But fortunately, Hegseth does (or at least seems to).
This is the lesson I get from the Russian experience in the Black Sea. While NATO sycophants mock the Russian Navy as if it is somehow uniquely vulnerable, what I get out of their problems is that surface warships in general are vulnerable to drones (and likely even more so to hypersonics). And that’s a much much bigger piece of bad news for Deep State globalists than it is for Russia, because it is the US/NATO that is far more reliant on naval assets for power projection and geopolitical influence than Russia.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.