Pentagon Study Calls for Cutting Two Aircraft Carriers and Replace with Smaller Drone Ships
|This is a sign of the changing technology:
An assessment prepared by the Office of the Secretary of Defense proposes cutting two aircraft carriers from the U.S. Navy’s roster to boost the number of smaller warships. Under the proposal, the Navy would retire two aircraft carriers and plow the savings into buying several dozen frigate-sized ships, as well as large unmanned ships. The proposal is likely to run into stiff opposition from proponents of carriers as well as the carrier lobby both inside and outside government.
The study, according to Defense News, would trim the number of nuclear-powered “supercarriers” from 11 to just nine. The number of large surface combatants, both guided missile cruisers and guided missile destroyers, would remain constant at between 80 and 90, compared to the approximately 83 ships in service right now. The number of frigate-sized small surface combatants, on the other hand, would swell from 15 to 20 to between 55 and 70.
Popular Mechanics
You can read more at the link, but smaller ships including unmanned ships make more sense if the Navy is preparing for a conflict to keep sea lanes open in the South China Sea. Bulky carriers that are big targets for China’s increasing ballistic missile capabilities are more challenging to deploy in response to such a crisis.
Coupled with the USFK withdrawal back to USA and the age of drones and AI automation there will be a lot of unemployed ex-servicemen. Especially at a time when the age of America being the world’s good cop has ended.
Sure glad we have the Chinese view of things…
There’s going to still be a lot of lonely Chinese men too.
@J6Junkie, there already are. No links handy but the 1 child rule lots of Chinese couples determined the sex of the baby and aborted if it wasn’t a boy. I read about it once, they had a name like Lonely Dragon Syndrome. Basically they were overly spoiled little boys, with not a lot of prospects for a wife. Probably why the quality of the trolls are going down…
You’re right, Doc. I hadn’t thought of that.
setnaffa, J6Junkie, and 2ID Doc, do you guys know how to fill out the welfare application forms? You might need to do that soon.
Projection again? That’s pretty sad.
You should probably get that swollen hemorrhoid looked at professionally.