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

By: Fiz in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 17 Sep 22 12:41 AM | 34 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 35613 of 60008
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I did read it; well, skimmed it at high speed. Did you THINK about it, and my objection, before you posted your response?

The proposal is moronic. Boats would have to be able to travel faster than hypersonic missles in order to escape. That isn't possible. Further, given the ships cost hundreds of millions, if not billions, each, it makes NO sense whatsover to put ANY sort of Sitting Duck boat in a war zone. Even if the ship has a 99% chance (which I doubt) of shooting ALL the AI drones and hypersonic missles out of the sky such boat are brain-dead idiotic from an economic perspective.

The world has moved on from both 'spears" and "battleships".

Nuclear submarines are about the only armed "navy" which still makes any sense these days, and even those are questionable given advances in underwater tech.


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Re: On Point: Let's Field Weapons to Defeat China's Pacific Strategy
By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE
Fri, 16 Sep 22 2:38 AM 		Msg. 35577 of 60008

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.

Zim.

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