China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns
China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns
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From now on you must view all of their words and actions through the lens of a fascist dictatorship. This is almost certainly propaganda intended to increase fear of Chinese supremacy and using that fear as an excuse to invade Panama.
I hard doubt the US doesn't have classified hypersonic missile tech, and even if they don't, this admin won't stop maintaining, building, or deploying these "vulnerable" billion dollar aircraft carriers. Everything conservatives and DOGE cut is everything that benefits the working class, and increases their quality of life and economic mobility. They never cut anything that enables their authoritarian capabilities.
Don't forget how they were able to slap a basically poor-only tax with their tariff bullshit.
I hard doubt the US doesn’t have classified hypersonic missile tech....
The HACM (Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile) is already out there.
I mean, carriers in this modern age probably are mostly sitting ducks against any modern adversary. They could barely take on Yemen.
If your adversary has satellites that can tell them where you are and a sufficient amount of missiles / torpedoes, there's only so much you can do.
This is absolutely true. Carriers are very vulnerable to advanced anti-ship missiles. But people with staunch political views have alternative truths they prefer to see propagated, so you've been punished.
How the hell would this guy know? He's not qualified to run a game of RISK much less comment on anything that really involves defense
Hegseth himself is a bigger threat to the US than China will ever be.
This guy can't even name a single country in ASEAN but is giving advice on china, a neighbour of ASEAN. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/trump-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-cannot-name-asean-country-4862576
Russia can wipe out US in 15mins using all their nukes in a suicide attack. worry about Russia first. Defeat russia in Ukraine first, russia is much weaker than china in GDP, show that you can kick russia out of Ukraine first.
"Russian army underwhelmingly unprepared and weak according to Chinese POW" lol
You are right, Ukraine would have gotten back their territories if russia were unprepared and weak. This POW will pay for insulting Ukraine army as being weaker than russia weak useless army.
We need to stop all this complacency, underestimation about Russia army. Never underestimate your enemy, no mater how weak they are.
I notice some pro-russian people are spreading russia propaganda about russia being weakling victim, can't invade over 3 years, using bicycles (Japan used bicycles to invade SEA, don't underestimate bicycles), motorbikes, WW2 gear, unprepared and will never invade or able to do any harm, they do this to reduce guard among the population. So people will look away.
Him not being able to name a single ASEAN country should have instantly destroyed his career. It's literally in the name so it just means he doesn't even know what it is and then that absolute moron continued to name all other neighboring countries that are not part of ASEAN lmao.
America will never recover from this. It secured its image as a disgruntled band of intellectual retards for the next several decades at least.
Why would they bother when Trump is going to sink the whole country?
Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake.
and that is putins plan essentially, needs USA out of the way so russia can reclaim former soviet states.
Hypersonic missiles could destroy every major city in the US in 20 minutes. Just have to put a nuclear warhead in them. The US is deploying hypersonic missiles too. This doesn't change anything except that in the case of Armageddon we will have half as much time to find someone to bang before we die.
I think the correct question here is:
"Why? They couldn't before you were in charge."
Biden didn't leave the keys to the anti sink plugs I guess.
Thanks Obama
Why does this feel like they want to throw even more money at the military industrial complex?
Exactly - they can’t use Russia’s military strength as the boogie-man any longer.
It’s fine. They’ll just find more fraud waste and abuse
This article's been here for almost an hour, are the aircraft carriers still okay?
"We need to enslave and control the population to survive against a perceived or projected foreign enemy." Translation from Trump cabinet language to English.
Btw isnt this also true vice versa? With the way technology is today(even disregarding nuclear) you could completely destroy your oponents navy if you have hypersonic missiles which, if i understand correctly, a lot of countries have considering how effective they are
Not sure what they can do. I seen to remember Russia shooting 6 of these at Ukraine in 2023 and then being shot down. I assume they must be different?
China can kill us. We need more money for war. (Has the biggest and most expensive military in the world) SMH
Well, since it is basic military doctrine that you should never field a unit that you can't afford to lose, and the billions in $ losses and thousands of sailor lives means we can't afford to lose a carrier, this suggests that carriers are now obsolete and should be retired.
Nah its just that they need longer ranged hypersonic missiles themselves but have been failing, so yeah China has a huge lead now.
US just needs new missiles and new missile destroyers to join th carrier group.
Someone should tell interestingengineering.com who Pete Hegseth is because obviously they haven't been paying attention for the last few months.
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Lol press x to doubt
I just imagine that almost all large military vehicles are sitting ducks to drones and such. Just look at Ukraine vs. Russia’s navy.
The problem with USVs is they're relatively slow, if a ship is aware of their presence and is in a fighting state - it can get rid of a bunch of them. And it seems that navy helicopters are a decent counter, but overall it's too early to tell if USVs are that good or was it the element of surprise.
Please do it.
China watching the Houthis fail to hit a single ship with a 30 missile salvo:
Even with supersonic anti ship missiles, successfully attacking the US navy is notoriously difficult, to the point that they've actually averted invading Taiwan unless some golden opportunity falls into their lap.
To be fair, he was completely hammered when he said that and doesn't remember it at all.
I think the Chinese Mach 10 Yj-21 hypersonic missile should send pretty much any carrier group to hell if they have 2 or 3 of the type 055 destroyers launching them at once.
Given any carrier battles probably happening in the Tawain strait I'd expect the land based and fighter based missiles would be launched as well so yeah I give the US really no chance of winning that one as things stand.
I think the US badly needs the same type of missile but they seem to be only getting failures, I read earlier in the week they'd cancelled another (Halo).
Don't get me wrong I'm sure the US could launch enough of their own LRASMs (stealth anti ship missile) to do some damage back but they'd likely not survive to see the result or get that many planes airborne to launch them.