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An undersold embarrassment of this fiasco is the Marine Corps has 10 (ten!) amphibious assault carriers that are more capable than most nations' flagships and w
by nixon_why69 3mo ago
An undersold embarrassment of this fiasco is the Marine Corps has 10 (ten!) amphibious assault carriers that are more capable than most nations' flagships and we didn't see one of them even talked about. Why have we been floating these things for decades?
- _heimdall 3mo agoHow would you propose we use them here? It seemed for a while like our military was at least prepping for a land invasion. Maybe they could have been part of the landing but I'm sure as hell glad they didn't follow through with an invasion. The geography, supply line issues, and drone warfare would have been an absolute nightmare.
- nixon_why69 3mo agoI don't think they could have been productively used, I'm more saying that they have always been a waste of money.
- _heimdall 3mo agoAh got it. It sure does seem like that's where we're ending up. Whether they would have been useful a couple decades ago may be up for debate, but I wouldn't want to be landing on one of those with drones in the air.
- lenkite 3mo ago> An undersold embarrassment of this fiasco is the Marine Corps has 10 (ten!) amphibious assault carriers that are more capable than most nations' flagships These Marine amphibious assault carriers are highly vulnerable to swarm tactics by fast Iranian assault boats. Iran has a few thousand of them which can be deployed fast. You need a full strike group to support the assault. And that means those ships are in range of Iranian mass-drone strikes and missiles. And Iran has a lot of hidden missile cities that they are yet to reveal. There is no way to achieve territorial supremacy without tens of thousands of casualties. It will make Vietnam look like a papercut.