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Curtis Conway's avatar

Low tech and low speed targets and the platforms used 5" almost none is a problem. This was a laboratory made for that gun . . . and they missed it. Those targets were made for that gun if you were close enough.

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Whitehall's avatar

The message I've found in the Houthi attacks is that LNG tankers are EXTREMELY vulnerable to even the smallest of drones. A shipment of coal, on the other hand is just a can of rocks with a motor on the end. Nuclear fuel for a year and a half can be delivered by one C-5A per reactor. Oil tankers at least have double hulls.

No owner of an LNG tanker will sail anywhere near a zone of disorder, much less through a war zone.

That has huge implications for the energy security of countries like Taiwan or the Philippines that want to move to LNG for electric fuel but could be subjected to a Chinese blockage like the recent "War of the Fishes" exercise around Taiwan.

The loss of orderly and safe sea lanes has huge secondary affects.

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