• ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Recognizing their inability to win a conventional war, China has developed an overwhelming missile arsenal

    What sort of conventional war are you talking about?? LOL, is the US mad that China won’t try to invade Guam with 1965 rules?

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      As we all know, I am the best at warfare, so if those sneaky non-anglos have discovered a tactic to defeat me it must be some sort of strange unconventional form of warfare and that’s the only reason it works because otherwise I would totally win.

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      I think they may be talking about littoral combat vs deep water navy excursions. Traditional navy wonks have been yearning for the old days of huge combat groups hunting each other in the Pacific. That style of combat is of course over, but the navy still hasn’t really grown out of it.

      Our current navy is still big, expensive, and basically geared towards a world war, but without an imperial navy to do battle against. America can’t move away from our current figuration because for the last 60 years, it’s just been utilized for force projection, not actual combat. Plus, out of all the graft happening in the military industrial complex. The navy by far has been caught with its higher ups hands in the cookie jar.

      The navy realized that littoral combat would likely be the future combat environment for the branch, but it’s response was a 100 billion dollar abortion. A LCS program that is basically non-functional at the best of times.

      It’s the same reason the Air Force keeps pumping out new manned fighters every decade. The upper echelon of the Air Force are all former fighter pilots, so of course they aren’t going to invest in programs that may allow another class of officer to rise above their command. The Air Force won’t ever be able to truly invest in unmanned vehicles, because to them (all fighter pilots) the pilot is the only key to air superiority.

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    I harbor a secret, desperate hope that the USA’s nuclear arsenal is becoming equally decrepit and outdated and that, on the day when the collapse of their empire finally becomes critical and the remaining members of the death cult who are unable to imagine the end of capitalism and who see the end of the world as the only option decide in a final act of greedy desperation to launch against China, it will turn out that China has been tirelessly advancing in that field too and is able to intercept and destroy enough of the warheads to spare the rest of the world from a nuclear apocalypse.

  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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    So the US Navy’s obscure but deadly weakness is, any new weaponry, honestly just seems like they are not prepared for war

    What next their flagship fighters weakness is it cant fly?