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drewkittyI hate getting bad news. From War Nerd:
"I’ve been saying for a long time that aircraft carriers are just history’s most expensive floating targets, and that they were doomed." [Not incidentally, so has Robert A. Heinlein, starting shortly after 1945 with occasional mutters periodically since until he died.]
"But now I can tell you exactly how they’re going to die.
"I’ve just read one of the most shocking stories in years. It comes from the US Naval Institute, not exactly an alarmist or anti-Navy source. And what it says is that the US carrier group is scrap metal."
"The Chinese military has developed a ballistic missile, Dong Feng 21, specifically designed to kill US aircraft carriers:"
The carrier strike group is one of the cornerstones of American power.
I've personally worked out four ways to neutralize a CVBG without nukes. (Underwater installations on seamounts, air-dropped mines, saboteurs on the carrier and naval special operations divers.) However, the high speed terminal ballistic missile was not among them.
On the other hand, it is budget time. Cheers. This is the military establishment which keeps us safe in our beds at night.
"I’ve been saying for a long time that aircraft carriers are just history’s most expensive floating targets, and that they were doomed." [Not incidentally, so has Robert A. Heinlein, starting shortly after 1945 with occasional mutters periodically since until he died.]
"But now I can tell you exactly how they’re going to die.
"I’ve just read one of the most shocking stories in years. It comes from the US Naval Institute, not exactly an alarmist or anti-Navy source. And what it says is that the US carrier group is scrap metal."
"The Chinese military has developed a ballistic missile, Dong Feng 21, specifically designed to kill US aircraft carriers:"
The carrier strike group is one of the cornerstones of American power.
I've personally worked out four ways to neutralize a CVBG without nukes. (Underwater installations on seamounts, air-dropped mines, saboteurs on the carrier and naval special operations divers.) However, the high speed terminal ballistic missile was not among them.
On the other hand, it is budget time. Cheers. This is the military establishment which keeps us safe in our beds at night.
