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What is the threat? Is it a few RUS subs up north? Or. Is it 500+ PLAN warships in their current active fleet (according to Wiki...) with double digit new ships coming online each year? What would be a better tool for dealing with a lot of surface ships than a bunch of Nuc Subs? MK.48's for...

Apparently that 'turtle tank' did survive the attack. It was then geo-located by one of it's crew posing for a picture with his 'local dollie' and it then drew a (HIMARS?) strike that destroyed it, and several other tanks in the same building/garage.

Addition - Looking at the list of 'stuff' that goes into Air Control/Supremacy/Dominance/superiority, the F-35 can do a LOT of things. Wild Weasel aircraft to knock down Air Defenses EW Aircraft to plot and jam the AD Bombers or strike aircraft to hit ground targets Fighters to protect the...

The thing about the F-35 - it's not just a bomb truck. You put 4 of them in the air, and with their sensor fusion and integral data and awareness sharing systems, it's basically like a stealthy distributed network of AWAC aircraft, all of them pulling info from across the EM Spectrum, sharing...

Last summer, Ukraine seemed to attempt their advances into the teeth of the strong(est?) Russian defenses. The previous fall, they did 'end around' advances, looping lighter forces around through poorly defended sections, enabling large, quick gains. I think this year, they should attempt to...

Saw this today - a pretty good take on things. I think.

Question - what impact will this have on the US strategically? I mean, it sure looks like an accident...but a lot of things look like accidents, and a lot of Hillary C's friends have also 'committed suicide' so....who knows?

A handy range card template I was sent that I thought I'd share.

Which is why I'm thinking that in the near term, the Chinese may simply push north and west instead of out to Taiwan. The N/W route becomes much simpler once the Russian Bear is not just distracted, but also de-clawed by NATO.

In the end, I don't think the war in Ukraine really matters much. The next big one will be in the Pacific. That said, demolishing the Russian reserve stocks of war material while testing western war technologies in a space that does not result in NATO deaths is...well...not a bad place to be...

Is this inappropriate?

A NATO compatible fleet oiler with military 'experience' and some equipment - equipped with counter UAS gear? Sounds like something that any idiot would love to rent/lease. Which is probably exactly why the RCN will attempt to divest itself.

Call it 'value added' - we'd never get that out of the other east coast shipyard/organization. They're protecting a company asset - makes good sense, particularly with the way we always seem to forward deploy our tanker(s).

The problem isn't just money. It's old hardware, old infrastructure, not enough people, and overworking the people you have left. How do you fix it? How do you get new hardware without the people to push the procurement? How do you get new infrastructure without the money? How do you get...

So does the XM-8, the SPIW, project SALVO, and so on...

Here's a group of heros....

It's hard to not leave things parked when you only have crews for half the ships...and firing more people won't help. To build warships is something that takes a nation's treasure. To build effective crews is something that takes a nation's best that want to serve. Right now, we live in a...

Technically incorrect....we have 4 subs....and we could probably put 3 of them to sea (depending on current maintenance status) but would probably only get one of them back (again, depending on current maintenance status.)

Rest Peacefully.