Pelosi to Taiwan

[davew]

She should go as Biden administration plays chicken with China ...


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...osi-visit.html

[tucker6]

If Pelosi goes and gets shot down, would that be considered a win-win scenario? Asking for a friend. Bonus question. Should I sell stock in her favorite ice cream brand? Would be funny if her husband already has...

[fast4522]

How much ice cream is the witch sending in advance?

[jocko699]

Originally Posted by tucker6

If Pelosi goes and gets shot down, would that be considered a win-win scenario? Asking for a friend. Bonus question. Should I sell stock in her favorite ice cream brand? Would be funny if her husband already has...

The hypocrisy would be by a Chinese Nationalist using an American made gun.

[ElKabong]

For China to release a statement that strong, they have a shitload more dirt on Biden than we imagined

[davew]

Maybe she should just fly first class commercial and don't tell the world when she is going.

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by ElKabong

For China to release a statement that strong, they have a shitload more dirt on Biden than we imagined

Very interesting point.


I don’t think they can shoot her down?

Have they invented a Broom seeking missile?

[davew]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

Very interesting point.


I don’t think they can shoot her down?

Have they invented a Broom seeking missile?

they made a rail gun for broomsticks

[OntheRail]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

Very interesting point.


I don’t think they can shoot her down?

Have they invented a Broom seeking missile?

They have water canons at the ready. And super soakers as backups.

[woodbinepmi]

Originally Posted by tucker6

If Pelosi goes and gets shot down, would that be considered a win-win scenario? Asking for a friend. Bonus question. Should I sell stock in her favorite ice cream brand? Would be funny if her husband already has...

Be nice, don't become one of them.

[Inner Dirt]

Originally Posted by OntheRail

They have water canons at the ready. And super soakers as backups.

Speaking of water canons, why don't they use them any more?

[davew]

Originally Posted by woodbinepmi

Be nice, don't become one of them.

EXACTLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9U8RFjoP2A

[Jeff P]

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea:
https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/07...-blue-sea.html

I have long argued the aircraft carrier is an obsolete relic of a bygone era. In so doing, I have been subjected to mocking ridicule by many, and simply disbelieved by most. Only a mere handful of respondents to my carrier-disparaging public statements has concurred with my analysis of the issue.

Herein I present a formal defense of the proposition.

I submit that, in the context of a great power war, the aircraft carrier was effectively proven obsolete in 1945.

That vulnerability not only persists to the present day, but is unquestionably more acute than ever before due the fact that anti-ship missile technology has advanced much further in the post-World War II era than has the capability of the targeted ships to defeat them.

The US Navy’s Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are larger than their predecessors and carry more advanced aircraft, but neither they nor the smaller warships that support them are significantly faster nor more maneuverable.

The configuration of current US carrier strike groups consists of a single carrier, 1 guided-missile cruiser, and 3 – 4 destroyers and/or frigates.

So, in a potential battle today between a US carrier strike group and a peer or near-peer adversary, a mere half-dozen ships with an extremely limited number of defenses will face massed salvos of hundreds of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, supersonic and hypersonic anti-ship missiles, and dozens of submarines with many hundreds of torpedoes – all of which deploy large modern warheads capable of inflicting a mortal blow against any of the ships in the group.

US naval power apologists may argue that the array of defenses on these ships is much more capable than in World War II. But it simply does not matter. It won’t be enough. Regardless of how one attempts to crunch the numbers, a putative engagement between a carrier strike group and the PLA Navy in the South China Sea would entail simultaneous massed attacks of precision-guided anti-ship missiles zooming in from all points of the compass.

It doesn’t require more than middle-school math to realize the inevitable result: the strike group’s defenses would be utterly overwhelmed. In all likelihood, every single ship would be sunk in a matter of minutes. It would be a catastrophic defeat – one which would shock the entire world and forever alter the course of military history.

The plain truth of the matter, in my estimation, is that, faced with the wide array of 21st century anti-ship missiles possessed today by Russia, China, Iran, and likely even North Korea, conventional surface fleets are effectively obsolete, and this will be proven beyond dispute in the first few hours of the next great power war.

Interesting take on the vulnerability of carrier groups unless you have complete air superiority.


-jp

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[OntheRail]

Originally Posted by Inner Dirt

Speaking of water canons, why don't they use them any more?

Can't say... I know this I would of used the in Ferguson day one. And in every other riot that occurred after that. Water is cheap effective at cleaning the scum off the street... side benefits wet shit don't burn. Soaked cold people tend to leave. Hell you can even add a dye dispenser to the rig... no geo tracking needed... just pick up any one off color for the next week.

Ralph what's the reason.. optics?

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by OntheRail

Ralph what's the reason.. optics?

Ding!