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2016-07-22 Science & Technology

Meet the US's answer to China's 'carrier killer' missile

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 With a name like 'Stingray', couldn't you just put a friggin laser on its head?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-07-22 09:15|| 2016-07-22 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Lasers are for Sharks, buddy! Sheesh! Pay attention! Stingrays get the Universal Destructo-Matic Boomhead.

Posted by Skunky Ulomorong1761 2016-07-22 09:41|| 2016-07-22 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Hopefully the drone is stealthy.

Posted by gorb 2016-07-22 10:35|| 2016-07-22 10:35|| Front Page Top

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-07-22 12:25|| 2016-07-22 12:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Could have saved a double-armed buttload of money and just hung Buddy Stores on the (antiquated) Intruders as dedicated tankers. birds had just got new plastic wings and now they sit in Davis-Mothan....KA-6Ds and A-6Es co-existed for years on the flight decks until the damn Light Attack Mafia started to diversify....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-07-22 12:36|| 2016-07-22 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I hear roumors of a proposed CFT-18, COD (small packages), gas hauler and fierce dawg fighter.

Posted by Shipman 2016-07-22 13:17|| 2016-07-22 13:17|| Front Page Top

#7 See also WAFF > [Weibo.com = pics] PLAAF H-6K STRATEGIC BOMBER FLYS BY PHILIPPINES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.

POSTER/BLOGGER = argued that China has enough LRBM missles to force any + all US Military forces from East Asia, from SOKOR to GUAM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-07-22 22:10|| 2016-07-22 22:10|| Front Page Top

#8 How much different is it between the deploymeny or basing of BMD/BMAADS-capable "Super-AEGIS" surface warfare vessels in Japan, wid China fitting out large ocean carriers wid DF-21/26 VLMS
What was the difference between a PERSHING INF capable of striking Moscow as easily as striking a Soviet tank division(s) attacking the Fulda Gap???

Submarines are "revenge" weapons, i.e. "third strike" + higher, NUCLEAR OR NON-NUCLEAR ARSENAL/FIRESHIPS are meant to confront the enemy from hour one of day one, i.e. "second strike" or lower.

Why should the US put ALCMS on 747's but China can't put anti-CVN ASCMS on same???

LETS GET REAL, PEOPLE!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-07-22 22:35|| 2016-07-22 22:35|| Front Page Top

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