You're overthinking this. It's just an elaborate scam to get some of that Pentagon money.
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I do wonder how far off US Navy surface ships being built in Korea and Japan are...
This certainly seems part of an investment or plan to acquire current shipyards or maybe some components are made in Korea and then shipped to the US?
Investing in rebuilding America's shipbuilding capacity makes sense from a national security perspective long-term, but they have severe short and near-term needs that cannot be met by domestic industry as it stands. Korean and Japanese yards can build basically every surface ship (outside of nuclear aircraft carriers) in volume at cost.
I know there are laws that are supposed to prevent this... but with the Trump administration I wonder how much they matter?
This certainly seems part of an investment or plan to acquire current shipyards or maybe some components are made in Korea and then shipped to the US?
Investing in rebuilding America's shipbuilding capacity makes sense from a national security perspective long-term, but they have severe short and near-term needs that cannot be met by domestic industry as it stands. Korean and Japanese yards can build basically every surface ship (outside of nuclear aircraft carriers) in volume at cost.
I know there are laws that are supposed to prevent this... but with the Trump administration I wonder how much they matter?
laws are only observed until they hinder the interest of the lawmaker. us laws at this point are a primarily propagandistic element used to motivate domestic support via 'moral justice'.
I think these are the most detailed photos of the RQ-170 every posted?
I know one was downed in Iran 2011, but I don't know if we ever got such high quality photos from that?
I know one was downed in Iran 2011, but I don't know if we ever got such high quality photos from that?
Super Hornet, Helicopter Assigned to USS Nimitz Crash in South China Sea in Separate Incidents, Crew Safe
An F/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) crashed in the South China Sea on Sunday in two separate incidents in the Pacific, USNI News has learned.
“At approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the ‘Battle Cats’ of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier, reads a statement from U.S. Pacific Fleet. “Search and rescue assets assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11 safely recovered all three crew members.”
Less than an hour later, at 3:15 p.m., a two-seater Super Hornet assigned to the “Fighting Redcocks” of Strike Fighter Squadron 22 also crashed while flying from Nimitz.
“Both crew members successfully ejected and were also safely recovered by search and rescue assets assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11,” reads the statement.
All crew are safe and in stable condition and the incidents are under investigation.
Nimitz is on the return leg of its final deployment before returning to the West Coast. The carrier, its escorts and the embarked Carrier Air Wing 17 left from the West Coast on March 26. The carrier operated in the Middle East for most of the summer, as part of the U.S. response the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping. The carrier entered the South China Sea on Oct. 17, USNI News reported at the time.
Two aircraft supposedly crashing in separate incidents on the same day? The odds of that are astronomically small with modern airframes. I think the two aircraft collided somehow, and the USN wants to save face. Or the PLA somehow managed to down them with lasers XD.
Nice recovery rate for the crew members, rescue crew had quite a day there !
I think if that was the case then I think the chance of having any survivors would be very minimal, let alone recovering both sets of crew.
Not necessarily. Not all collisions are created equal; it could've been a glancing blow that gave the crew of each aircraft time to eject/retain control of their aircraft.