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Please note that the frames with the highest loss rate were 1) Tornados on anti-runway duty (because of the specs of their anti-runway ordinance was leaked to the Iraqis) and 2) A-10s... I mean that the shells have anti-rad guidance packages to purposely hunt down AA batteries. Also, the...

I wouldn't be surprised if artillery shells got a SEAD/DEAD upgrade or if all ARMs in the future were either cluster munition only or useless. This is mainly because it's a matter of density, not numbers. From my understanding, SHORAD level AA and higher have surprisingly low density throughout...

To be honest, APCs are going to be used for 2nd-line/garrison troops in the future, at best.

Here's the thing, historically the situation always has been what you can't get by trade, you have to get by conquest. By keeping China in the system, you don't have to fight them because they are part of the system and thus have a vested interest in keeping the system. If China pulls out of...

Problem is, we need China to be invested into the system, and if there is no investment in the system then bad things happen.

@Sailor.X, China becoming the US's rival won't be a thing for a few more decades, mostly due to the fact that their cash cow that is outsourcing is drying up and the fact that they're practically replacing their entire navy which is best described as 'green water' (i.e. coastal) for the most...

It wouldn't be the first time we've up the size of a type of warship. There was a time where DDs were less than 5k tons at most. Now frigates are in light cruiser/very light heavy cruiser territory and DDGs are Washington Naval Treaty heavy cruisers in size and displacement.

Any that requires ASW capability (which is, to say, a lot)? Given that the Benton-Woods system is breaking down, you're going to need those corvettes in escort duties because no one is going to be willing to trade anymore.

Actually, with lasers, you can 'clean up' before it can get to such a situation. Have a few lasers with an ample power supply (say a turbine with fuel to spare or a nuclear power plant) and simply start zapping at just enough power to vaporize the junk or, as one group figured out, send out the...

The thing is that those redundant sats aren't stealthy. Like, at all. Also, China knows that it can't do anything if it doesn't want starvation to kick in thanks to a handful of spots in Asia that basically makes it impossible for the Chinese to effectively go out into battle to break them at...

Another thing is that with the US's laser weapon program, they're going to have a weapon that can reach orbit, which means satellites are just one capacitor away from being turned into scrap metal. Although, as long as the US's laser program is using IR wavelengths instead of something more...

... and only because they don't know what they're talking about. They don't know that a UV-pulse laser would go through that plasma sheath as it wasn't there, for example.

True, but for something on a single planet level, carriers rule over battleships.

Unless armor goes full-on Battletech, that won't happen. BBs died because they couldn't match the area of control of aircraft carriers (which is, in effect, stupid huge).

Well, I do have a GDI-style Tunguska I drew up in GURPS Vehicle 2e (or 3rd Edition for you other folks)... three 45mm L/100 autocannons firing at a rate of 9 rounds per second each... firing SAPHE, APEX (fancier APHE), and HEPF (HE with a prox fuse) capable of hitting things at almost 11km...

Sparky and those under his... ideology... believe that radar shouldn't be a thing and that it is just useless junk...

That is unless you're talking to the ignorant and Sparky's fanbase...

Remember, these are the idiots that include Blacktail Defense... i.e. they think battleships are still top dog navally.

Yep, that idiot. He and the 'reformists' are something of a blight to the military community as a whole.