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Too slow and too fragile

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The Navy has already spent billions on fast and fragile. That was yesterday's post. Put a sail on a warship, say it is for climate change, and Congress will fall over themselves throwing money at "slow and fragile".

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solve the fast part. The fragile? use their birds first and send them home. Don't we expect massive attacks on day 1? That's what these ships would be for.

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Recruiting is bad enough...where will they find the topmen in the Gen Z pool?

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O Hour, and the CIC is reporting a "line of inbound aircraft, at least 60 plus" and "reported multiple missile launches in China" speed isn't as important as 120-160 more Standards to service targets. And it's less of a loss if a lightly manned freighter gets to be a cruise/ballistic missile pincushion.

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I feel like more shots won't matter once the first leaker gets through. I think we need some magic fly swatter option. I hope SEWIP Blk III has some of that.

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Well, hopefully more shots will reduce the chance of leakers. And like I said, maybe leaker hits one of the missile carriers rather than a carrier, Burke, or replenishment ships.

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That right there is the nice part about having numbers have a quality of their own.

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