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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Navy to squander money on World War I technology


The Chinese YJ-18 missile can cruise at about 600 miles an hour, or just under the speed of sound, only a few meters above the surface of the sea and then, about 20 nautical miles from its target, accelerate to as much as three times the speed of sound.  But we keep spending billions on sitting duck surface ships.


The Surface Navy is Dead
  • World War II was little more than World War I plus aircraft carriers.  By the end of WWII the surface navy was basically dead.
  • Our modern navy surface ships are pretty much only useful for rescuing people at sea or bullying crap-hole third world nations that cannot defend themselves. In a real war with a modern military power our ships are little more than expensive sitting ducks for high tech missile target practice.
  • But sitting ducks or not, that never stopped the Military Industrial Complex from spending and spending and spending.


The U.S. Navy is planning a substantial expansion of its destroyer fleet in an effort to improve its ability to conduct major maritime warfare operations.

The Navy is hoping to increase its overall battle force inventory to 355 vessels within the next 15 years, according to information Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers shared with Warrior Maven.

Specifically, the Navy wants to add up to 30 new destroyers, 15 littoral combat ships, 18 new frigates and 32 attack submarines.

Of the planned destroyers, 22 are slated to be DDG 51 Flight III and eight for DDG 51 Flight IIA.

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Kamikaze Attacks

By the end of World War II is was obvious that the surface navy was dead when face to face with any real military power.





Kamikaze + Aircraft Carrier = Sunk
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A total of 57 ships were sunk by Japanese kamikazes including 3 aircraft carriers and 14 destroyers.  Some 368 other ships were damaged.  About 4,900 sailors were killed and over 4,800 wounded.
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All this was done with ancient World War II era technology.  But for some insane reason we continue to build super expensive WWII style carriers and destroyers in an age of ultra powerful high-tech missiles.

Ka Boom Target ship hit by two P-270 Moskit (NATO: SS-N-22 Sunburn) anti-ship missiles during Russian Navy Pacific Fleet exercises. k Take a guess how long any surface ships from any navy would last in any real war.

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