{"id":71061,"date":"2017-03-24T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71061"},"modified":"2017-03-24T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:33:00","slug":"and-all-the-ships-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71061","title":{"rendered":"And All the Ships at Sea…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aircraft carriers are \u2018vulnerable to attack\u2019, per the news story. No! Really! Like, we don\u2019t know that already? Yes, I know, that’s the USS Mahan, but I couldn’t find a bird farm photo in the bin.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-carriers-specialreport-idUSKBN16G1CZ<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: \u201cTrump’s expansion plans come as evidence mounts that potential enemies have built new anti-ship weapons able to destroy much of the United States\u2019 expensive fleet of carriers. And as they have been for decades, carriers remain vulnerable to submarines.<\/p>\n

In a combat exercise off the coast of Florida in 2015, a small French nuclear submarine, the Saphir, snuck through multiple rings of defenses and \u201csank\u201d the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and half of its escort ships. In other naval exercises, even old-fashioned diesel-electric submarines have beaten carriers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ignorance of this reporter and others is glaringly obvious in this story. \u00a0A task force is built to deal with these kinds of things.<\/p>\n

Ships at sea are and always have been vulnerable to attack and to damage, as is shown in the WWII damage report on the Enterprise CV-6.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/research\/library\/online-reading-room\/title-list-alphabetically\/w\/war-damage-reports\/uss-enterprise-cv6-war-history-1941-1945.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Go to page 51 in the report, photo #2 J2. This was shot during the Battle of\u00a0(Midway). \u00a0\u00a0Sorry, that should be the Battle of Okinawa. My bad.<\/p>\n

The 9-ton elevator door was blown skyward by kamikaze pilot\u2019s suicide strike, after the bomb his plane was carrying exploded in the hangar deck. The elevator door is at the top of the explosion column in the still photo, which is a frame taken from a 16mm film being shot at the time.\u00a0 While you\u2019re at it, look at some of the damage Japanese bombs did to that old girl. Note in the damage report how many times Enterprise suffered damage throughout the battles in which she was involved and still hung in there, no matter what.<\/p>\n

The lesson is that the press seem to insist on being uninformed and\/or misinformed, as an excuse for writing sensationalist articles like this. \u00a0Frankly, in a real war, I would expect diesel subs to be used because not every country has nuclear subs. Russia has five nuclear subs, but only one aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n

As indicated in the article, the Chinese are claiming they have missiles that can go 10 times the speed of sound, which is 761.2 mph (1,227.74 km\/h). That means their missiles are, per their claim, able to move at 7,612 mph.. That\u2019s their claim, no evidence that it\u2019s true is available to date.<\/p>\n

Fastest missile speed to date\u00a0 is BrahMos. between Mach 2.8 (3,400 km\/h;\u00a02,100 mph;\u00a00.95 km\/s) and Mach 3 (3,700 km\/h;\u00a02,300 mph;\u00a01.0 km\/s). \u00a0These are for ship, submarine, aircraft (under testing) and land-based mobile launchers. BrahMos is a cruise missile of Indian\/Russian origins.<\/p>\n

Peak speed for ICBMs is 6 to 7 km\/sec, which is 13,392 mph or 21,600kph.\u00a0 Any faster, and the missile launches into space.<\/p>\n

Unless there\u2019s something under development that can move that fast and track a Nork ICBM, what is our alternative?\u00a0 Anyone have the answer? Anyone? Bueller?<\/p>\n

With Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird getting jiggy on his side of the Chinese-Norkiland border, and the Chinese showing a bit of angst about it (because they don\u2019t want to be bothered with him, either), it\u2019s logical to ask if we, meaning the USA, have anything that can track and destroy an ICBM moving at 13,392 miles per hour. \u00a0Thugboy is leading up to the intercontinental stage of missile development and if he gets a hair up his ass, he\u2019s going to launch \u2018em. He won\u2019t just be shooting at the South, or the Chinese or Japan. His aspirations go much further than that. \u00a0It would be no real loss if he accidentally took out some part of SoCalifornia, instead of Foggy Bottom.<\/p>\n

But to return to the story itself, the reporter misunderstands the purpose of war games, which is to test the vulnerability of your own armaments as well as those of your opponents.\u00a0 His quivering, panicky prose indicates a lack of information.<\/p>\n

It may be that he likes to be that way. \u00a0It stokes his little adrenaline rushes, or something. \u00a0Perhaps he should watch \u2018Down Periscope\u2019 a couple of times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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