Four F-35B Lightning II aircraft perform a flyover above the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) during the Lightning Carrier Proof of Concept Demonstration. (U.S. Navy photo by Andy Wolfe/Released)
After nearly two decades of counter-terror operations around the world, the United States military has recently begun shifting its focus away from this form of asymmetric warfare and back toward the potential for near-peer conflicts with nations like China or Russia.
Despite maintaining the most powerful military apparatus on the globe, this pivot won’t be without its challenges.
Over the past 19 years, the United States military has funneled the majority of its funding into combat operations and new technologies that support the counter-terrorism endeavor.
During this time, national opponents like China have had ample opportunity to observe the way America’s military operates, and find cost-effective methods of countering the U.S.’ most significant strengths.
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I disagree. The "carrier killer" are not that much a threat and carrier group has defense too.
Again, for killing an aircraft carrier there is long way to go...even at a hyper velocity speed. The chain of direction is complex enough to be disturb.
America has a massive hole in their defense and is in just that defense. I believe without a shadow of a doubt that Russian S300-S500 systems are leagues ahead of anything America has even considered feilding. In a time where we consider UAV the size of fighter planes, we need to consider that the V1 and V2 missiles of Germany where just that, UAV's.
Soft power of China, isn't just "soft power" its hidden power. We could say when, but really its if, if an American carrier was attacked and sunk, it wouldn't be obvious who, it couldn't be. Simply because American defense is a massive overshadowing offense of thousands of nuclear weapons of mutually assure destruction.
China, Russia, these are no pair adversaries, the entire NATO alliance isn't a pair adversary. The share overwhelming force would wipe billions of lives from this planet.
The only question anyone should be asking is simply, do Americans have the balls to strap into a fighterjet on a one way mission. Because the entire fleet of aircraft aboard those carriers are obsolete.
The are obsolete but still flying, still conducting missions, still dropping payloads. There is a reason missiles are single use, are one way, because their biggest potential is their potential. The DF-21D has the potential until it doesn't, until its weakness is defined and its defeated.
Guess what im trying to say is, stop considering potential and start considering tried, tested and operational munitions that ultimately are outdated, past their used by dates but still in operation. Because the moment you field something, you are devloping, researching that next generation and the DF-21D hasn't sunk a single carrier todate, so how does one ever improve when they don't even know what is weaknesses and limitations are.
If you think combat radius is an issue for carriers? Id suggest you look at the Falklands war. Where Vulcans flew 12000km's in bombing raids almost 50 years ago, you want to sit there telling me that the combat radius of an aircraft fighter wing is 1000km's, then you no nothing about war or the aircraft that can operate from a super carrier. You can't program a commander and you can't model a solider, all you can do is prey to which ever god you believe in and hope you get lucky, you get 1 more day, but eventually death comes for everyone and sooner or later its going to be knocking on Chinese door.
Jac, this is for you.
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