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2005-12-05 Home Front: WoT

Navy to Expand Fleet With New Enemies in Mind

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Posted by Steve White 2005-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Loren Thompson's comments should be taken wid a grain of salt since China's likely response to Washington's deployment of any USN CBG in any Taiwan-NK scenario is to immediately escalate the nuclear threshold. LITTORAL WARFARE IS IRREGULAR WARFARE where modern Navies are concerned - the PLAAF's LR bombers and PLAN SSN/SSK's/"carriers" are there to protect the PLAN's boomer subs, not the subs to protect the former. WIth the advent of smaller, smarter and heavier-armed UAVS, the destiny of the US Navy's own CVNs is likely to become a multipurpose, super-Arsenal ship capable of carrrying 00's of UAVS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-12-05 00:24|| 2005-12-05 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Joseph, that's an interesting vision. The carriers could eliminate the berthing for all the pilots and support personnel that would not be needed anymore because of the use of UAVs, freeing up room for more UAVs and ordnance. Then if the PLAN came across the Taiwan straits they could pulse waves of UAVs at the invasion ships. Cool...

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2005-12-05 01:00|| 2005-12-05 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm with Joe on this. Although it will take a few years to work on swarm technologies to make this a military killerapp.

Imagine a ship capable of launching many hundreds of disposable UAV's, each of which has missiles and is itself a missile, all of which attack a target simultaneously from all directions.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2005-12-05 06:54|| 2005-12-05 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 OK, NOW I'm convinced Joe's not a 'bot. That's a brilliant vision, Joe.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-12-05 08:13|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-12-05 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Life, liberty, and the pursuit of those who would threaten them. Go Navy!

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-12-05 09:00|| 2005-12-05 09:00|| Front Page Top

#6 NOW I'm convinced Joe's not a 'bot.

Unless, he's just a front for the self-aware computer plotting the destruction of the human race. SkyNet, anyone?

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-12-05 09:01|| 2005-12-05 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 The only thing more broken than the USN is the CIA. What will a CBG be in 30 years? A CVN, two CGs a part time DD and 2 SSNs. Somebody there should read Augustine's Laws Command of the seas is critical to the US. But it looks like we're giving it up for gold plating. The next naval war is being fought now in our shipyards, and the results don't look good.

Posted by Sholung Crirong2184 2005-12-05 09:39|| 2005-12-05 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Joe for UNSecGen!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-05 10:06|| 2005-12-05 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Personally I still like the idea of converting some Balistic missile subs over to carrying tomohawks. I think the idea was that you could put 6 tomohawks into each silo and launch a massive non-nuke wave at a target.

Since a sub is stealth by definition this would allow a sort of ace in the hole first strike that could safely decapitate a punk nation. The only issue is you need good coordinates for the strike.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-12-05 10:17|| 2005-12-05 10:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The carriers could eliminate the berthing for all the pilots and support personnel that would not be needed anymore because of the use of UAVs, freeing up room for more UAVs and ordnance.

Not necessarily 'all'. One still will have stick-drivers (albeit ship-based), support staff and maintenance personnel. There will still be ASW and CSAR assets; they haven't made a dipping-sonar UAV yet.

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-05 11:34|| 2005-12-05 11:34|| Front Page Top

#11 yet

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-12-05 17:08|| 2005-12-05 17:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Or just the correct coords of the Chinese Embassy?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-05 19:16|| 2005-12-05 19:16|| Front Page Top

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