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Orangeburst said:
Prized Ohio Guided Missile Submarines Will Be Gone From Navy By 2028
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If the Navy is serious about distributed warfare, then this is the right move (these hulls are aging out, but regardless).

You don’t want 1 Ticonderoga with 150 tubes, you want 3 Arleighs with 50 tubes.
You don’t want 1 Ohio with 120 tubes, you want 3 Virginia’s with 40 tubes.

But you don’t take tubes offline without a frickin replacement ready to fill that capacity gap. We’re not fighting insurgents anymore.
 
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85SugarVol said:
If the Navy is serious about distributed warfare, then this is the right move (these hulls are aging out, but regardless).

You don’t want 1 Ticonderoga with 150 tubes, you want 3 Arleighs with 50 tubes.
You don’t want 1 Ohio with 120 tubes, you want 3 Virginia’s with 40 tubes.

But you don’t take tubes offline without a frickin replacement ready to fill that capacity gap. We’re not fighting insurgents anymore.
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A long time to recoup 154 x4.
 
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We need to strip the massive power requirements for “future” directed energy whiz-bangs from the new Constellation Frigates.

Get them under $1B, and build 100 of them. Deploy them to the Indo-Pacific.

We don’t need stronger pieces on the board. We simply need more pieces on the board.
 
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85SugarVol said:
If the Navy is serious about distributed warfare, then this is the right move (these hulls are aging out, but regardless).

You don’t want 1 Ticonderoga with 150 tubes, you want 3 Arleighs with 50 tubes.
You don’t want 1 Ohio with 120 tubes, you want 3 Virginia’s with 40 tubes.

But you don’t take tubes offline without a frickin replacement ready to fill that capacity gap. We’re not fighting insurgents anymore.
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I'm beginning to think we've finally made war too expensive to fight. Too bad our enemies with cheaper weapons didn't play the same game.
 
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85SugarVol said:
We need to strip the massive power requirements for “future” directed energy whiz-bangs from the new Constellation Frigates.

Get them under $1B, and build 100 of them. Deploy them to the Indo-Pacific.

We don’t need stronger pieces on the board. We simply need more pieces on the board.
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Exactly and inoperable whiz-bang stealth fighters sitting on the ground aren't a match for five "lesser" fighters in the air. Besides the tankers that keep stealth fighters in the air are going to tell you they are there anyway. Some of these decisions defy logic ... or at least redefine it in some obscure way.
 
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AM64 said:
I'm beginning to think we've finally made war too expensive to fight. Too bad our enemies with cheaper weapons didn't play the same game.
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We need a mix of high end - low end, across the entire Military. But especially in the Navy & Air Force.

We can’t keep trying to roll out these super expensive “do everything” platforms. Not when we’re fighting a numbers game vs the CCP.
 
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EXCLUSIVE: The Chinese 'community centers' in San Francisco, Nebraska and Houston suspected of secretly working for Beijing - after FBI bust 'illegal police station' in Manhattan and warned of other spying outposts

A bland, two-story red brick building is surrounded by a perimeter fence in a nondescript neighborhood in Omaha. Passersby are greeted by a modest billboard that reads: Welcome To Nebraska Chinese Center.

In the heart of San Francisco's bustling Chinatown, wedged next to a Chinese jewelers and an oriental restaurant, lies the Chinese American Association.

And in Houston, the Chinese Civic Center covers 22,800 sqft of an industrial estate, boasting a function room, library, and dozens of classrooms.

All three centers claim, in one way or another, to promote Chinese culture and education. But what belies their banality is that their addresses and telephone numbers appear on a list of overseas cells run by a branch of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - and are suspected by an NGO of being run by a Beijing authority known to 'silence' its critics.

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DailyMail.com has identified the locations of three Chinese 'community centers' in the US, including the Chinese American Association in San Francisco (above), suspected by an NGO of being run by a branch of the Chinese Communist Party known to 'silence' its critics

The China hubs in San Fran, Nebraska, Houston suspected of working for Beijing after Manhattan bust | Daily Mail Online
 
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85SugarVol said:
I can’t find anything on this. Can you link anything?
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The F-35’s electronic and cyber warfare capabilities are largely still hidden behind the classified veil, but they very evidently extend well beyond mere jamming. One distinct possibility is the ability to leverage the F-35’s AN/APG-81 not just to jam enemy air defense systems, but to transmit algorithms via a data stream that can actually infect those systems with malware that can be used to monitor signals received, disrupt the function of the system, or even display decoy radar returns.

Just how good would an F-22/F-35 Hybrid Fighter really be? - Sandboxx
 
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