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2014-05-01 Home Front: WoT

Save the aircraft carriers - sink the LCS

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Posted by Frozen Al 2014-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 A Right Wing News Artic on TOPIX, i.e. "A DEADLY RECIPE FOR WAR WID CHINA", denoted that there may be no US CVN forward deployed in WESTPAC next year for four months while the CVN USS GEORGE WASHINGTON rotates wid the CVN USS RONALD REAGAN, leaving America + overseas Allies highly vulnerable iff China + PLA decide to bust a move to take over disputed islands.

As led by US budget cuts, the USA = USDOD is no longer able to fight 2-to-2-1/2 Ocean Wars as during the Cold War thru post-9-11, but can now only fight 1-to-1-1/2 minor wars or limited mil actions, or 1 minor war and 1 major UNO-led peacekeeping action.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-01 03:04|| 2014-05-01 03:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, the lust for new toys and gizmos over practicality - see A10.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2014-05-01 08:17|| 2014-05-01 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Everything I've read by the good folks at Information Dissemination is that the LCS is a ship in search of a mission. I'm not expert enough to judge, but to me 'LCS' is just another phrase for 'corvette'. Not sure the Navy needs a whole bunch of expensive corvettes.

Posted by Steve White 2014-05-01 11:22|| 2014-05-01 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with Steve White "Not sure the Navy needs a whole bunch of expensive corvettes."

But I do think they could use a few heavily loaded Impalas for land assaults by the Marines

Posted by Jumbo Bubba Tingle 2014-05-01 11:46|| 2014-05-01 11:46|| Front Page Top

#5 ...pending resolution of the future sequester impact.

Ahh-so! More budget games.

The failure to fund to the refueling and overhaul is another example of how the irrationality of sequestration has produced similarly irrational responses from the Defense Department. Critical defense priorities have borne the brunt of budget cuts while lower priority programs have survived.

Also known as "The Admiral's Barge Syndrome".

Posted by Bobby 2014-05-01 12:31|| 2014-05-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Congress could save a lot of money by mandating that Airforce 1 and 2 could not leave US continental airspace.

Posted by Pearl Borgia1889 2014-05-01 13:05|| 2014-05-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 We don't buy stuff we need for DOD, we buy stuff the conglomerates want to sell. Gotta keep the graft flowing.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-05-01 19:48|| 2014-05-01 19:48|| Front Page Top

#8 You think we got problems.

Posted by Dale 2014-05-01 22:22|| 2014-05-01 22:22|| Front Page Top

#9 I think we should just sell Air Force One to North Korea. They could rename it Air Force Un.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-01 22:54|| 2014-05-01 22:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Traditionally, when the USN formally retires a CV, it also retires most or all of its escorting Battle Group - CGS or CGNS, DDGS, FFGS, SSNS, USMC Amphibs, etc.

* FYI TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > [Various] UKRAINE CRISIS HAS LED TO UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF INTERNATIONAL MONITORING BY DRONE.

Somewhere out there, perhaps in the skies = high atmosphere over your city or hometown [or island], is a US experimental aircraft that has allegedly flown for over 500 days-n-counting, + NOBODY KNOWS FOR CERTAIN WHY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-01 23:09|| 2014-05-01 23:09|| Front Page Top

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