The boats will expend their loadouts and then permanently cede the territory due to transit time to and from Hawaii to replenish. (Guam will be gone in the first hour.)
The boats will expend their loadouts and then permanently cede the territory due to transit time to and from Hawaii to replenish. (Guam will be gone in the first hour.)
During WWII US subs had access to a number of bases along the northern shores of Western Australia. As part of AUKUS, HMAS Stirling in Perth is expected to get a major upgrade in facilities, perhaps reopening the base in Exmouth can be considered. Espirito Santo, Noumea and Ulithi were major advanced bases in WWII, also Kwajalein, Peleliu and Samoa....which is American territory. Well, Pago Pago is.
No and no. What little we have in tenders, two of them, they usually tied-up in Guam with an occasional port-call to break things up.
There's a comms station for the USN, and a barebones airfield that the RAAF uses. USAF personal also rotate through the airfield manning the Learmonth Solar Observatory. Nearby is a bombing range.
The boats will expend their loadouts and then permanently cede the territory due to transit time to and from Hawaii to replenish. (Guam will be gone in the first hour.)
Guam, Yokosuka, Atsugi, Misawa, Camp Butler, Singapore, Pearl, Panama Canal Zone, Bremerton and San Diego as well.
Even likely they take out Cubi to prevent us from using it.
If war starts, China is not going to take baby steps.
The Canal Zone? Run by the CCP?
Good luck with that. Want to be that in the event of an 'incident' there will suddenly be 'technical' issues shutting the canal down?
During WWII US subs had access to a number of bases along the northern shores of Western Australia. As part of AUKUS, HMAS Stirling in Perth is expected to get a major upgrade in facilities, perhaps reopening the base in Exmouth can be considered. Espirito Santo, Noumea and Ulithi were major advanced bases in WWII, also Kwajalein, Peleliu and Samoa....which is American territory. Well, Pago Pago is.
Do we have stockpiles there now? And do we have tenders to go hang out in the other places?
No and no. What little we have in tenders, two of them, they usually tied-up in Guam with an occasional port-call to break things up.
There's a comms station for the USN, and a barebones airfield that the RAAF uses. USAF personal also rotate through the airfield manning the Learmonth Solar Observatory. Nearby is a bombing range.
Shipping the MK 48s down range is a much harder problem then figuring out how to load them down range.
Seems like tossing them in a C-17 would be easier than finding a pier and a crane. But, I must defer to my betters on this one.
How many loadouts have we?