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Attack the navy with 5000 speedboats? Didn't Japan try that with planes in Okinawa? |
2019-05-17 |
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Posted by:3dc |
#19 Wonder what an FAE going off in the middle of their formation would do. Hard to hit, I'd imagine, but... |
Posted by: Whusoling de Medici5845 2019-05-17 21:47 |
#18 Refresh my memory: are these the same people who gave kids plastic keys to paradise and sent them in to clear minefields? They don't have to destroy our whole military--just enough to induce one party to drop support. I'd love to know what exactly is going on behind the scenes here... |
Posted by: james 2019-05-17 21:27 |
#17 20mm Oerlikon. The US Navy kept trying to retire it and kept rediscovering that it is needed for dealing with small craft especially inshore. |
Posted by: magpie 2019-05-17 18:38 |
#16 ^ how about bofors or phalanx? |
Posted by: chris 2019-05-17 17:21 |
#15 After watching a few you-tube scenarios of 50 cals against drone speedboats in training sessions, my money is on the speedboats. |
Posted by: Roger Smith 2019-05-17 14:00 |
#14 "Flying carpet boats". Good one. |
Posted by: Roger Smith 2019-05-17 13:56 |
#13 Ref #10: Wars are our business, and business is good. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-05-17 11:09 |
#12 These are Flying Carpet Boatsâ„¢, unimpeded by waves |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-05-17 11:08 |
#11 Kamikazes had some success but it was a bad deal for the pilots and, as you may recall, they lost Okinawa as well as all the other major battles in the Pacific after Pearl Harbor. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-05-17 11:08 |
#10 We really should quit tying our hands behind our backs in combat situations and just liquidate the attacking enemy. |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-05-17 10:38 |
#9 Boats going 100 mph can not deal with waves. Fuel air explosives over the waves or something bigger under the water would end the threat. Just saying and it wouldn't be PC. Napalm wouldn't do bad either... |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-05-17 10:35 |
#8 A speedboat doing 157 kph? Isn't that like 100 mph? On a glassy lake, maybe. But just wait until they upgrade to the stealth speedboats! |
Posted by: Bobby 2019-05-17 10:12 |
#7 Two words: Phalanx CIWS |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-05-17 09:51 |
#6 Target area saturation is what the Iranians are going for. More missiles than we have the ability to shoot down. It is a good and cheap strategy for them. For now. Once the laser AWS (Anti-weapon systems) start being deployed, we can take out a vastly greater number of missiles and speedboats with those things. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2019-05-17 09:38 |
#5 ..and what did Japan look like after it was over? Sort of encouraged the idea to throw at them anything and everything before the next invasion schedule. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-05-17 09:04 |
#4 Yes and it worked quite well in Okinawa. They caused a great deal of damage. |
Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-05-17 07:46 |
#3 Bad comparison. Japan didn't have standoff high speed missiles. |
Posted by: Woodrow 2019-05-17 07:41 |
#2 It's not 1945. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2019-05-17 07:32 |
#1 It's 1945. Technology is much more sophisticated. It'd be like shooting fish in a barrel. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2019-05-17 07:32 |