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Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans
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2018 Mar 26, 5:02pm 1,540 views 2 comments
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MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Mar 26, 7:11pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Mar 26, 7:11pm
Unfortunately, the Bush and Obama Admins and Congress have given us nothing but boondoggles, so we now have planes and ships approaching 40-50 years in age. The replacements are underwhelming AND behind schedule, or were cancelled for being the boondoggles they are (ie the LCS).
Fighter Planes aren't Passenger Jets or B-52, flying straight and level. Their airframes undergo incredible stress. You can't fix the airframe cost effectively, you're better off building something else.
Our naval and air inventory is goddamn aged and needs to be replaced. It should have been done starting in the 90s and 2000s, and then we would have 10-20 years to coast. Unfortunately, most of our vessels and combat aircraft were built in the 70s and 80s and are at the end of their useful lives.
At the very least we'll have to make a few hundred Super Hornets to fill in the gap.
We have a serious problem with multirole - particularly ASW - vessels like the Oliver Hazard Perry Frigates, which are all due to retire. You don't use AEGIS cruisers to patrol the GUIK gap or convoy merchant vessels against Chinese Subs, waste of an asset better deployed for Task Force AAW. The LCS is exhausting ships' crews AND it's damned uncomfortable AND it's seaworthiness is in doubt. Also, no Torpedoes or ASROC, so the LCS are completely dependent on Helicopters. God forbid it encounters a Russian or Chinese Sub in a high sea state where the helicopters can't operate.
Fighter Planes aren't Passenger Jets or B-52, flying straight and level. Their airframes undergo incredible stress. You can't fix the airframe cost effectively, you're better off building something else.
Our naval and air inventory is goddamn aged and needs to be replaced. It should have been done starting in the 90s and 2000s, and then we would have 10-20 years to coast. Unfortunately, most of our vessels and combat aircraft were built in the 70s and 80s and are at the end of their useful lives.
At the very least we'll have to make a few hundred Super Hornets to fill in the gap.
We have a serious problem with multirole - particularly ASW - vessels like the Oliver Hazard Perry Frigates, which are all due to retire. You don't use AEGIS cruisers to patrol the GUIK gap or convoy merchant vessels against Chinese Subs, waste of an asset better deployed for Task Force AAW. The LCS is exhausting ships' crews AND it's damned uncomfortable AND it's seaworthiness is in doubt. Also, no Torpedoes or ASROC, so the LCS are completely dependent on Helicopters. God forbid it encounters a Russian or Chinese Sub in a high sea state where the helicopters can't operate.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/march/26/neocons-are-back-with-a-big-war-budget-and-big-war-plans/
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