You know.
Because it never left.
Yeah, I'm thinking America's back
Ian Parker
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James Smith
I winder if it's too late to join
Matthew Lewis
you don't have to be 18 to join the service
John Moore
>yfw
Justin Morales
China and Russia and prolly Iran have those missiles too.
Jaxson Williams
Or the 1970s-80s version of them anyway.
Jaxon Martin
They can't build the tracking systems and Russia won't sell to them
Luis Nelson
I'm pretty sure that we are 50 years ahead of everybody in terms of anti-ship weapons. Literally no other country has supersonic anti-ship missileas and we already in final stages of testing hypersonic ones.
Liam Campbell
Russians are pretty good at missile technology tho.
China prolly will just copy from someone anyway.
Ryan Myers
America's fading. This is the Chinese century.
Sebastian Rivera
I have a messed up knee from a motorcycle accident a year ago. Nothing bad but it acts up when I do excessive exercise
Landon Baker
>stealth
i can still see it you know
Isaac James
I see nothing, you crazy bro.
Parker Edwards
>I'm pretty sure that we are 50 years ahead of everybody in terms of anti-ship weapons
Levi Gomez
I wouldn't say 50 years, but both China and Russia invest much more resources into their anti ship missile technology than the US does. It's a doctrine thing, the US doesn't have many ship targets out there so why spend so much money developing anti ship missiles?
Brayden Barnes
They had to decloak for the photo, silly boy.
Eli Watson
There's no other military on Earth that can touch our capabilities.
Austin Myers
>They can't build the tracking systems
China can't even build a high performance jet engine.
Dominic Baker
China just learned how to manufacture ball point pens.
There's a saying, the weapons that are publicly acknowledged are 10 years behind the weapons that aren't.
Julian Torres
>China just learned how to manufacture ball point pens.
And they still have liquid fueled ICBMs like it was the 1960s.
Austin White
Literally the iPhone of ships
Kayden Hughes
>these shart in marts circlejerk about america's military without any knowledge of the subject
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Christian Walker
That ship was designed to use guns for shore bombardment, with at least thirty to be built. Then it was repurposed for naval supremacy, with a total of about seven ships to be built.
Now its a glorified missile carrier that literally does the same job as an Arleigh Burke or a nuclear submarine for 3-7 times the price.
John Scott
David Foster
>the national interest (from 2015 too?)
>ejinsight (?)
At least try to find more credible sources
Evan Watson
They also have literally no combat experience in recent memory. The last war China fought (almost 40 years ago) ended in them losing 20,000 troops to a couple of Vietnamese militia and farm women with pitchforks.
Sebastian Rogers
One of the PLA's big handicaps is the huge amount of time wasted studying commie books instead of practical military skills, but the CCP refuses to de-politicize the armed forces since they maintain that the Soviet Union collapsed due to not keeping their army properly indoctrinated.
Nathan Brooks
That is true, but vaporizing goatfuckers in the middle of a desert with unmanned drones isn't the best practice for a fight with someone who can actually fight back
James Hall
How long before it crashes into a commercial ship?
Thomas Ortiz
I put it to you this way. When they were threatening to invade Taiwan in the 90s, Bill Clinton sent the 7th Fleet out there and said "You really want to try it?"
They backed down.
Angel Allen
Whatever else, the US was the first to do it, and the first to prove that it works quite well.
Logan Baker
>30 years ago
40 years ago China was an India-tier shithole with India-tier economic relevance, the world can change a lot in a few decades
Lucas Thomas
Can we have ze missiles please?
We only got those
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Luke Brooks
the US military, despite the memes, is pretty much the same as its always been, for the most part. most of its current "failings" have been on paper stuff or just plain nit picking from traditionalists. the main problem with the US military today is the fact that alot of money is being given over to unproven projects and technology that are abandoned before they go anywhere.
Dominic Gomez
What, vaporizing goatfuckers? I feel like that isn't something that really needs to be proven
William Cook
>40 years ago China was an India-tier shithole
It still is outside the areas designed to impress tourists.
Hudson Richardson
they still wont invade taiwan. it would be suicide. theyre still a US ally and them invading would mean a war with their biggest economic partner. its not worth it just for a tiny island. not to mention the casualties.
Nicholas Green
>the main problem with the US military today is the fact that alot of money is being given over to unproven projects and technology that are abandoned before they go anywhere
It's been this way ever since the 1950s though.
Parker Taylor
If a war broke out anyway, Taiwan would probably be reduced to ash and there wouldn't be anything of value left there for Beijing to use.
Christian Young
i think its gotten marginally better though, you dont see shit like pic related getting shut down because of a few doubts from politicians who dont know shit about what they have.
Ian Nelson
It really isn't anymore, 10 years ago i would generally agree with you, but now, it really is like a completely different place. Even the shitties places are only as bad as the worst places in Poland
t. been to Tibet, Shenyang, Yunnan
Zachary Rodriguez
We also don't have anything anymore as silly as the Strategic Helium Reserve in Texas which was put there in the 1920s when military strategists envisioned armadas of battling airships.
Kayden Collins
Thanks burger bros
Ryder Wilson
i could see having a reserve like that being useful economic wise, considering helium is very rare and has plenty of uses besides balloons.
Joseph Carter
i forget, is finland in nato? i know sweden isnt.
Aiden Parker
>considering helium is very rare
Isn't that the second most abundant element in the universe?
Robert Hall
rare on earth, you jackass.
Jacob Hill
Have any of you fucking faggots actually spent time in China? I run a warehouse in Dongguan. It's fucking filthy, impoverished , and desolate.
Aside from the 3 tier 1 cities it's an absolute clusterfuck of a country where human life is almost worthless. Everyone knows the central government can clean sections of Beijing or stimulate the hell out of local economies through inane construction. But the vast, vast majority of people have no means to afford what they are selling.
The real truth is no one knows how fucked the country is except for the communist led government.
Gabriel King
there was a screencap about why you shouldn't learn mandarin and how the chinks are yellow jews.
Blake White
Nope. Both Sweden and Finland are as close as possible to Nato without being full members though.
Matthew Campbell
>2 in operation
?
Lucas Davis
Doesn't the Finnish army usually conduct training maneuvers focusing on some unnamed invader attacking from the east?
Jeremiah Peterson
there were only 2 built because it turns out that stealth ships are memes. you cant really do anything without giving yourself away so theres no point.
Chase Perry
Only a few nations know how to do that though. The titanium alloy design on the ballpoint was limited to Japan, Germany, and Switzerland before 2016.
Carter Baker
It's difficult to keep on earth because it's so light. If it gets into the atmosphere then it will drift to the top and evaporate away into space. There are a few terrestrial sources though, like Granite.
Logan Mitchell
The same Vietnamese pitchfork peasants that defeated us four years before, huh?
Jonathan Taylor
You have been saying this for five years but never show any proof of your “factory”.
This exact same post.
Jesus christ dude. Do you have a life?
Hunter Murphy
Indeed. Always from the east.
John Harris
No they weren't fighting the regular NVA, they were all in Cambodia at the time. Though actually we didn't lose to the NVA anyway, South Vietnam did.
Aaron Brown
we really defeated ourselves tbqh. we slaughtered them military wise, even brought them to the negotiating table once, but then we let politicians who didnt know what the hell they were doing be in charge of our troops and then we had no clear objectives. combine that with incompetant allies and a dumb as fuck hearts and minds rhetoric (when that clearly wasnt taken into account) the politicians didnt want to sacrifice their image and pulled out.
we defeated ourselves, which, in my opinion, is even worse.
Austin Morgan
You lose a war when you fail to achieve your objectives, which in vietnam was a stable south a disarmed north willing to give up communism and remain peaceful
Aiden Richardson
Yeah, the one that's worth billions less but does pretty much the same job.
Ryder Hughes
living on bought time to be honest
Sebastian Brown
weve survived worse.
Leo Wright
By that logic America didn't win every war ever, and that's just nonsense.
Robert Peterson
They don't have the needed knowledge. Most of their stuff is stuck in the 80s. It's not easy to keep up for any country, if literally all high skilled software developers are sitting in the US.
Wyatt Sanders
we lost 1812.
thats pretty much accepted as fact here.
John Gomez
I mean, if your cunt has been fighting wars for all but 11 years of it's history, you're bound to win a couple
Kevin Brown
That war was a stalemate.
William Taylor
Daniel Cruz
Strategic immolation of one's capital.
Poland did one of those during the Deluge. Their king might've missed out on it but he was too busy fleeing to the other side of the continent to declare victory.
Cameron Long
Ah common. They don't even manage to write their own operating systems. In the end they will use Linux and get hacked before they are even able to use their rockets.
Jordan Peterson
haha no, half this board is composed of Sup Forums and to Sup Forums, America losing a war is like Donald Trump not being the greatest person in the history of ever, just cannot be true.
Carson Fisher
>I mean, if your cunt has been fighting wars for all but 11 years of it's history
Beg pardon?
Revolutionary War: Six years
War of 1812: Three years
Mexican War: 2-1/2 years
Civil War: Four years
Spanish-American War: Three months
WWI: 1-1/2 years
WWII: Four years
Korean War: Three years
Vietnam War: Eight years
Gulf War: Six months
Afghanistan conflict: Eight years
Iraq conflict: Eight years
That would be slightly under 50 years out of 243 years.
Levi Hernandez
Sorry, 21 years was the correct number
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Adam Morgan
>Sup Forums
>being smart
they dont count because they have the intelligence of a rodent.
Lincoln Butler
Oh yeah, I can't wait to see how lockheeb jewtin fucks this up by throwing a temper tantrum about anyone designing a missile for the military without them getting a 100 billion dollar contract. The zumwalt will always be a paper tiger firing harpoon missiles from the 70s, it's a non-threat to anyone.
Joseph Gray
not him, but:
indian wars
vast military interventions like grenada and other latin american countries
syria
Adam Jones
>not listing the cold war
Jayden Howard
But even the dumbest marsupial knows to migrate if their habitat isn't to their liking.
Luke Robinson
Wrong.
The NVA regular forces that invaded Cambodia were only two of their six armies.
The Cambodian regime fell in Dec 1978 and the Sino-Vietnamese war happened two months later. The PLA faced the NVA and paramilitary forces. Not “pitchfork-armed peasants” as your delusional brain believes.
Jaxon Taylor
Most of those are some petty-ante border skirmishes from the 19th century, not real wars. Counting actual, real wars, it would be less than 50 years since 1775. Unless you think a couple of American and Canadian farmers arguing over the Maine border in 1840 counts as a war.
Landon White
i didnt say they were a smart rodent.
Logan Morales
Russia tested very recently their Hypersonic missile.
Easton Morales
Russian ASMs are the deadliest in the world and the prevention of their export has been a key point in several treaties. The US navy has been stuck in the 60s-70s because the defense industry spergs out every time they start a program for a new one, like when the navy wanted a compact ASM to fit inside the f-35 and Lockheed threatened to take its toys and leave in a legendary fit of tard rage.
Jonathan King
Kayden Walker
you mean the "zircon"?
you do realize all the propaganda pics for that thing had a USAF logo on the side right?
also america tested hypersonic missiles a long time ago, they arent new.
Liam Bailey
I was talking about the Brahmos, which is Supersonic, my bad.
Blake Mitchell
haha
"The DF-ZF has likely been in development since at least 2013. In January 2014, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense announced a successful test of a hypersonic vehicle for “scientific” purposes. Since then, there have been at least five more launches, with the most recent event reportedly occurring in April 2016."
Cooper Martin
either way hypersonic is a meme. missiles can still shoot them down. same with CIWS.
Matthew Gray
Kek, Russia and testing new stuff. Is there any decent video material?
Ryder Fisher
im still not going to be fully happy until they bring back BDU
top tier aesthetic.
Nathaniel Sanchez
This will be your downfall when our Somalian allies attack you.
Samuel Torres
Benjamin Allen
The same could be said about you if you're memorizing posts on Sup Forums and detailing the timeline from which it originated.
Levi King
Now post how America canceled all zumwalt class because ammunition is too expensive
Charles Morris
they cancelled it because stealth is useless on a ship. the ammunition is the same.
Carter Watson
There's a reason why only Third World countries use Russian gear in their armies.
Evan Parker
Russian equips are fine for simple things like an assault rifle, but when it comes to advanced stuff like an aircraft, they can't compete with the US and Europe for technical sophistication, reliability, or tech support/parts.
Mason Torres
LOLno. China is Hell on Earth.