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What a frustrating article! Another case of 'no threat model security analysis' Hypersonic missiles are the perfect anti-aircraft-carrier weapon. Thats why Chi
by droopyEyelids 6y ago
What a frustrating article! Another case of 'no threat model security analysis'
Hypersonic missiles are the perfect anti-aircraft-carrier weapon. Thats why China and Russia have invested. It's a cheap counter to America's greatest strength.
That means the article is basically correct! It's a waste of money for the USA- we are not an underdog looking to counter a power that outspends us by trillions.
But the article is also completely backwards and wrong! In the USA we've run a near-austerity budget for decades to support an enormous war machine premised on aircraft carriers being important, and now that has been if not neutralized, severely nerfed.
- valuearb 6y agoThe US doesn’t need hypersonic anti carrier missiles, since no potential adversary has any appreciable number of carriers.
- thoughtstheseus 6y agoYeah, the U.S. navy already knows this. They’re shifting to a more distributed fleet architecture.
- josefresco 6y agoNot to mention an existing robust fleet of nuclear submarines.
- randomopining 6y agoHow long will it take for them to make the change?
- sitkack 6y agoAircraft carriers were always an expensive, eggs-in-one-basket liability since they were invented. Rather than allocate resources to our own hypersonic missiles and carrier defense, we should be using something other than massive floating targets. Massive aircraft carriers primary purpose is to burn money.