Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Navy can't complain about getting smaller since they continue to field faulty ships

So the Navy will get smaller. 

The cruisers won't be missed. They don't bring enough to the fight in today's terms that can't be done with a Burke.

The Amphibious ship plan was always shaky way beyond what the USMC is hoping for. Most of the big Amphibs are old and don't have a modern power-plant. That, and any Tarawa like scenario is easy to repulse given the wide variety of weapons that would face an amphibious landing.

The Navy is getting smaller, yet they insist on fielding weapons systems and ships that have no value to controlling the Pacific. The carrier air wing is obsolete against emerging threats. The DDX will get sunk. The Littoral Combat Ship is a joke. Lots of savings to be had there by scrapping them.

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