Dont you worry folks ! Its just for Peacefull space exploration .... The Hypersonic part is just the old Autobahn flex ... I mean they allready look so very peacefull ... just wanted to share ..
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6000 sailors surrounded by carcinogens on top of a nuclear reactor and 3m gallons of jet fuel. The last place I'd want to be in a modern war is on a CVN. The second-to-last place would be any waters nearby a sinking CVN.
Because if all this the US strategy in war has to be to pre empt everyone and strike first, which is uhhh not good
The SSN/SSBN fleet is still the wildcard, but subs have their own set of countermeasures and I think Guam is still within range of Chinese missiles. Without carrier groups we've got no ability to lock a region's airspace down or support ground forces so it'd damn our ability to maintain a fight.
The B2 bombers are also a thing. They're stealth, can travel halfway round the world and carry nuclear weapons. Even with anti stealth radar techniques, they're still hard to detect if you don't know they'e coming
They launch from a static airfield and require super special ground crews/supply lines though. We can safely launch them from a US airfield but I'm not sure what safety means in an era of cheap drones and hypersonic weapons. Maybe it's a viable first strike, maybe it's only a first strike before airfields are unusable. Subs are totally hidden for 6-12 months at a time unless you detect them temporarily. A CVN's top speed is classified but carrier groups can probably move at a destroyer's pace. Those have a lot of flexibility so it's like the old ICBM/submarine nuke debate.
you wonder why after the Missile Incident at Al Assad airbase and against the Oil Raffinery , US suddenly started to move all their assets away .
I have this theory , that selling effcient military equiment is not actually desired for private Companies , if they know they get the Orders anyway.
like the Drone that Iran Shot down some time ago was 250 € Million or something , for a Drone , thats so Insane pretty sure 220million are just "Middleman Greasing" or something like that ....
Oh and "Lazers " of Course , Soon the Lazers will be ready , they only try this stuff since the 50's , but given the lack of results , they should get a Higher Budget apperantly , not stop the Nonsense ...
The way military development is structured is also just stupid. Pentagon Wars had a scene about the development of the Bradley. Between contractor corruption, the complexity of new research that gains a worthwhile edge over rivals, and the military officers constantly rotating out any kind of new system is ratfucked.