Re: The End of the Carrier Age?
So the PLAAF and PLANAF sits this scenario out?
And you need to better separate reality from fantasy if you think any airborne laser can detonate a missile in 'barely a second'. There are clips on Youtube for crying out loud.
Remember, those clips aren't real time. The Airborne laser blows up a generic ballistic missile in 3-5 seconds depending on it's fuel.
Well, lets admit it, until the PLAAF/PLANAF gets anything in the realm of Stealthy in large numbers, they're paper tigers to anybody with a Stealth airforce, i.e., until you get J-20s, F-22s will walk right through you.
Reference for that silly "close-range interceptor with laser-pointer" strawman of yours? That is your strawman argument, not mine, so the burden of proof lies on you to show that a dazzler system can't work in any other way. Nice try.
Can we not metaphor? It hurts my head.
It doesn't matter where they are made from. Sunglasses don't reflect laser.
That's what they want you to believe. Type 99 drivers just have it better than the rest of us huh?
What a fitting description of your posts that you have made so far. You know, like how's there's not even a shred of proof that the ABL won't get shot down.
Not even a shred of proof of a DF-21D too.
Yet another strawman. No one here brings up the idea of them being the same except you. And I believe I have made no ambigiuity when pointing out that you are a loyal devotee to said religion. You clearly didn't get the hint to stop with your red herrings... or perhaps you simply have no intention to participate in any form of constructive discussion on this forum to begin with.
Perhaps we're two of the same, as these red herrings were to divert your red herrings, but it so seems that I have unleashed the beast in you.
You are clearly having difficulties, so I'm going to help you:
-- the true or actual state of a matter; conformity with fact or reality; a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like; the state or character of being true; actuality or actual existence; an obvious or accepted fact.
-- something taken for granted; a supposition; the act of taking for granted or supposing; arrogance; presumption.
But you would agree that 187 F-22s v.s. 2 Prototypes, the F-22s win? Or is this not reality?
Lol, now even you acknowledge it is an assumption. I rest my case.
But hey, I'm still right
You sure are trolling hard.
A single F-22 isn't all that difficult to defeat. That F-22 being invincible is just a myth.
Well, if you're just going to be ignorant and assume anything I type are attempts at trolling than why are we still talking?
IronsightSniper wrote:
"The ABL destroyed a target missile like a few months ago, it's operational, it's just that no one wants to buy it.
And if you shoot 6, we'll blow up 6, thing is multi-shot."
A system is only operational if it is inducted into a military organisation and ready for use, with trained crews, organized maintenance, command organisation &c.
If you are able to destroy the first missile, you will be to late to hit the others before their engines have completed their work.
Again, the thing takes seconds to switch to another target. You'll have to shoot more missiles than we can blow up to counter it, unless you want to use all those costly alternatives from a page back.
Remember this is an absurd example. But how can you speak of overreaction? If the Pakistani authorities were to think, that the USN attack might mean the destruction of Pakistan? Do you contend, that they are not allowed to defend themselves with weapons that are not illegal because the attacker is the USN?
Another way to ask the original question: What is the maximum number of crew the USN is prepared to loose in the destruction of a single ship and why is it buying ships with a larger crew?
A single U.S.N. CBG is not a sign of doom, it is only if you're country is small and poor. Pakistan has enough conventional weapons to handle a CBG, they would consider nuking it a final option but they'd know full well that nuking one U.S. ship will equate to Lahore or some Industrial/Economically vital city getting nuked.
