CDR Sal, a great idea, sadly a "deja vu" version. The USA was developing the NLOS PAM (containerized missiles that could be placed around the battlefield) and the USN was looking at them on the LCS as their "teeth". The program was cancelled, the LCS lost its "teeth"...and here we are again.
CDR Sal, a great idea, sadly a "deja vu" version. The USA was developing the NLOS PAM (containerized missiles that could be placed around the battlefield) and the USN was looking at them on the LCS as their "teeth". The program was cancelled, the LCS lost its "teeth"...and here we are again.
Have to observe if we did decide to go full bore on this, pick your version of bureaucratic obstacles to include Military Industrial Complex (TM) profit driven "studies" to inflate the cost and profit to major companies, JCIDS, safety "concerns" (some totally realistic, others simply "gold plating" for profit). This is the "Gordian Knot" you wrote of the other day. Where is our Alexander to cut thru it? The world wonders...and is concerned. OBTW, given the size of the Chinese maritime "militias" (hundreds of ships), their civilian ROROs (ferries), and ability to "strap things on with zero regard for safety / personnel comfort, this is a gun barrel we may find ourselves already facing...very soon.
Spot on. I see Sino- US conflict commencing with monster COSCO hulls 300 miles off of Norfolk, San Diego, Jax and Bremerton flipping up the top row of boxes and launching a pre-emptive wave of cruise missles. Goodbye US fleet.
CDR Sal, a great idea, sadly a "deja vu" version. The USA was developing the NLOS PAM (containerized missiles that could be placed around the battlefield) and the USN was looking at them on the LCS as their "teeth". The program was cancelled, the LCS lost its "teeth"...and here we are again.
Have to observe if we did decide to go full bore on this, pick your version of bureaucratic obstacles to include Military Industrial Complex (TM) profit driven "studies" to inflate the cost and profit to major companies, JCIDS, safety "concerns" (some totally realistic, others simply "gold plating" for profit). This is the "Gordian Knot" you wrote of the other day. Where is our Alexander to cut thru it? The world wonders...and is concerned. OBTW, given the size of the Chinese maritime "militias" (hundreds of ships), their civilian ROROs (ferries), and ability to "strap things on with zero regard for safety / personnel comfort, this is a gun barrel we may find ourselves already facing...very soon.
Spot on. I see Sino- US conflict commencing with monster COSCO hulls 300 miles off of Norfolk, San Diego, Jax and Bremerton flipping up the top row of boxes and launching a pre-emptive wave of cruise missles. Goodbye US fleet.
And the US, unlike Israel, has essentially no homeland air defense missile systems. Would not put too much faith in our interceptors either.
Exactly.