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Re: On Point: Let's Field Weapons to Defeat China's Pacific Strategy 

By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (1)
Fri, 16 Sep 22 2:38 AM | 34 view(s)
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Riz > Zim, I was hoping the US "strategy" wasn't going to be to deploy more large, expensive, SITTING DUCK ships which could be taken out with trivial ease


Why do I have the feeling you did not read the entire article?

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Here's a specific solution to the hull deficit. In May 2021 I received a detailed briefing on a remarkable 96-foot-long warship, the H96. At first glance it's a 21st-century PT boat, the Navy's WWII king of speed and combat punch per pound and per dollar. Quick and cheap to build, the PT deployed in narrow seas to blunt post-Pearl Harbor Japanese naval might.
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WWII PT boats were small, cheap, and packed a big enough punch to sink destroyers or troop transports. What the author of the article was proposing was a LOT of rather small inexpensive war fighting platforms with ship sinking capabilities . . . versus a much smaller number of large 'sitting duck' warships.

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Re: On Point: Let's Field Weapons to Defeat China's Pacific Strategy
By: Fiz in 6TH POPE
Thu, 15 Sep 22 5:45 PM 		Msg. 35563 of 60008

Zim, I was hoping the US "strategy" wasn't going to be to deploy more large, expensive, SITTING DUCK ships which could be taken out with trivial ease by volley of drones and cruise missles (impossible to block with any existent technology, probably including laserguns).

Is there a GUARANTEED way to address that concern? It seems to me, and others, that bringing more "battleships" to a war with China in the middle of the ocean is sort of like bringing spears and stones to fend off a gattling gun (or maybe F15s are a better analog of the quaintness of putting 100 year old tech in a cyber war).

It sounds like small minds are leading the US in the military as well? I'm hoping you have a good answer? I also am curious why you would necessarily want the US to "win" if the US is just a Woke Oligarchy? Personally, at that point, I would want the US to lose -- and get off the stage. Is there a Strategy to dislodge the DemonRats also being discussed by the strategists? ....I'm serious here.

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