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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Btw isnt this also true vice versa? With the way technology is today(even disregarding nuclear) you could completely destroy your oponents navy if you have hypersonic missiles which, if i understand correctly, a lot of countries have considering how effective they are

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not sure what they can do. I seen to remember Russia shooting 6 of these at Ukraine in 2023 and then being shot down. I assume they must be different?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Russia shot old school missiles at Ukraine and One ICMB, that hit put rest of EU on alert leading to an increased military budge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think the Chinese Mach 10 Yj-21 hypersonic missile should send pretty much any carrier group to hell if they have 2 or 3 of the type 055 destroyers launching them at once.

Given any carrier battles probably happening in the Tawain strait I'd expect the land based and fighter based missiles would be launched as well so yeah I give the US really no chance of winning that one as things stand.

I think the US badly needs the same type of missile but they seem to be only getting failures, I read earlier in the week they'd cancelled another (Halo).

Don't get me wrong I'm sure the US could launch enough of their own LRASMs (stealth anti ship missile) to do some damage back but they'd likely not survive to see the result or get that many planes airborne to launch them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Hypersonic missiles could destroy every major city in the US in 20 minutes. Just have to put a nuclear warhead in them. The US is deploying hypersonic missiles too. This doesn't change anything except that in the case of Armageddon we will have half as much time to find someone to bang before we die.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why does this feel like they want to throw even more money at the military industrial complex?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Exactly - they can’t use Russia’s military strength as the boogie-man any longer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It’s fine. They’ll just find more fraud waste and abuse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Please do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, since it is basic military doctrine that you should never field a unit that you can't afford to lose, and the billions in $ losses and thousands of sailor lives means we can't afford to lose a carrier, this suggests that carriers are now obsolete and should be retired.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Nah its just that they need longer ranged hypersonic missiles themselves but have been failing, so yeah China has a huge lead now.

US just needs new missiles and new missile destroyers to join th carrier group.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

China watching the Houthis fail to hit a single ship with a 30 missile salvo:

Even with supersonic anti ship missiles, successfully attacking the US navy is notoriously difficult, to the point that they've actually averted invading Taiwan unless some golden opportunity falls into their lap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Someone should tell interestingengineering.com who Pete Hegseth is because obviously they haven't been paying attention for the last few months.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

"We need to enslave and control the population to survive against a perceived or projected foreign enemy." Translation from Trump cabinet language to English.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

China can kill us. We need more money for war. (Has the biggest and most expensive military in the world) SMH

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

To be fair, he was completely hammered when he said that and doesn't remember it at all.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

This guy can't even name a single country in ASEAN but is giving advice on china, a neighbour of ASEAN. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/trump-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-cannot-name-asean-country-4862576

Russia can wipe out US in 15mins using all their nukes in a suicide attack. worry about Russia first. Defeat russia in Ukraine first, russia is much weaker than china in GDP, show that you can kick russia out of Ukraine first.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Him not being able to name a single ASEAN country should have instantly destroyed his career. It's literally in the name so it just means he doesn't even know what it is and then that absolute moron continued to name all other neighboring countries that are not part of ASEAN lmao.

America will never recover from this. It secured its image as a disgruntled band of intellectual retards for the next several decades at least.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"Russian army underwhelmingly unprepared and weak according to Chinese POW" lol

https://lemmy.world/post/28249156

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

You are right, Ukraine would have gotten back their territories if russia were unprepared and weak. This POW will pay for insulting Ukraine army as being weaker than russia weak useless army.

We need to stop all this complacency, underestimation about Russia army. Never underestimate your enemy, no mater how weak they are.

I notice some pro-russian people are spreading russia propaganda about russia being weakling victim, can't invade over 3 years, using bicycles (Japan used bicycles to invade SEA, don't underestimate bicycles), motorbikes, WW2 gear, unprepared and will never invade or able to do any harm, they do this to reduce guard among the population. So people will look away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That Ukraine that has only been a nation for 12 years or so? Wow I wonder how well the 140 years of imperialism develops soldiers and war techniques.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I mean... Russia would own Ukraine by year three of this war and wouldn't be using WW2 munitions if they were prepared and strong. There's something to be said about the Russian military preparedness

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I’ve heard bullshit before. This sounds exactly like that

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