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originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: JIMC5499
It sounds like it's going to get a pretty extensive redesign. It'll have to if they want to armor her and add the weapons they're talking about.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: TrueBrit
Obviously, you have no conceptual powers to see thousands and thousands of ships blanketing the ocean on the way to the US mainland. View the advancing ships I speak of as similar to the sacrificial human waves they committed in attack Korea. As I stated, there would not be enough delivery of ordnance from rail guns, lasers, missiles, torpedoes, bombs or aircraft to stop a massive, non-formation armada of commercial and military ships.
Of course, this situation that I suggest avoids the mentioning of the likelihood of a nuclear exchange between nations that would have resulted before the invasion attempt. Nothing would be working like clockwork after that, except those many, assorted ships plodding along with millions of Chinese troops armed with little more than rifles. End of story.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: TrueBrit
Perhaps the concept that China could at some point send hordes across the Pacific to attack mainland America is a good reason to have coastal protection beyond the gun emplacements of old and even modern mobile missile units. Mobility is the key issue to land/sea/space warfare these days. A coastal defense force of properly armed ships is one of the last-gap measures to insure protection.
One important lesson from the Korean war has not been forgotten even if it is rarely discussed when war with China is the topic. In Korea, the US lost the war because the Chinese military thinks nothing of human lives, merely the objective.
In Korea, seas of lightly-armed bodies rushed forward to simply overwhelm the firepower of the allies. As the Chinese attacked and those in the fore were cut down, their bodies stacked to become an advancing wall of protection for the next wave to come over the top. The US had no strategy except to threaten nuclear war.
At the present time in short order, China could amass a flotilla of commercial ships used as troop ships to inundate the entire west coast of America with a solid mass of millions of men on the ground if they were to get a footing.
You couldn't have enough missiles, torpedoes or strike aircraft to destroy a widely dispersed force launching from the coasts of China. The decisive battles would be fought here, near their intended destinations.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: JIMC5499
It sounds like it's going to get a pretty extensive redesign. It'll have to if they want to armor her and add the weapons they're talking about.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Bedlam
I do love when the gnomes come out to play. Maybe, and I can't believe I am saying this with a straight face, the LCS will actually become semi capable after all.
originally posted by: Aliensun
At the present time in short order, China could amass a flotilla of commercial ships used as troop ships to inundate the entire west coast of America with a solid mass of millions of men on the ground if they were to get a footing.
You couldn't have enough missiles, torpedoes or strike aircraft to destroy a widely dispersed force launching from the coasts of China. The decisive battles would be fought here, near their intended destinations.