Empire WoesImperial Decline Imperial Navy’s ‘Littoral Combat Ships’ Keep Breaking Down So much so that they're not regularly escorted by special repair ships on deployment David B. Larter 2 Nov 20 1539 4
Our Benevolent Empire 2019 Saw a Record Number of Imperial Navy “FONOPs” Provocations in the South China Sea US claims to be sailing to defend the UNCLOS convention it has not itself ratified and does not subject itself to David B. Larter 7 Feb 20 574 4
Invincible Empire Imperial Navy Proposes Retiring the First 4 Littoral Combat Ships After Just 7 to 13 Years in Service That's how "useful" the $400 million boats are David B. Larter 29 Dec 19 1469 9
Imperial Navy Struggling to Find a Use for Littoral Combat Ship Lemons Their primary mission to transfer $400 million per tiny vessel with minimal offensive punch to defense cormpanies has already been accomplished David B. Larter 23 Dec 19 962 4
Empire Woes US Navy Can’t Take Down China’s A2/AD Bubble With Submarines Without Bankrupting Itself in the Process The right idea but at $3.5bn per sub the US will never have the numbers it would take David B. Larter 10 Dec 19 1652 8
Those Pesky Sino-Russians Russian and Chinese A2/AD Has Forced US Navy to Move Naval Strike Underwater but Even That May No Longer Work Missile strike on peers can now only come from subs, but even these may not survive long after David B. Larter 22 Nov 19 2221 16
Our Benevolent Empire Empire to Prop Up Its Carriers off China’s Coast With Thousands of Land-Based Missiles A very dangerous idea the INF treaty with Russia was scrapped to make possible David B. Larter 19 Oct 19 1165 8
Invincible Empire When US Navy and Marine F-35 Pilots Most Need Performance, the Aircraft Becomes Erratic “Fleet pilots agreed it is very difficult to max perform the aircraft” David B. Larter 8 Sep 19 6435 11
Invincible Empire US Navy Sings Praises to a Norwegian Anti-Ship Missile as It Deploys It to China’s Backyard If this is such a great threa to China's Navy, what to say of China's own missiles with three times the range? David B. Larter 6 Sep 19 981 2
Invincible Empire No Longer Taboo: Pro-Navy Senator Warns Aircraft Carriers May Be “Obsolete”, “Sitting Ducks” for Hypersonics How do you shoot down a hypersonic missile when you can't even take down a normal one? David B. Larter 21 Aug 19 15678 22
Invincible Empire Despite Record Budgets, US Navy Short Hundreds of Millions for Maintenance If Raytheon can't run away with billions from it, it's not a priority David B. Larter 20 Aug 19 617 4
In a Naval Confrontation With Iran, Great Britain Can Find Neither Ships nor Friends With a navy built to support the US the Brits are in trouble after the former, itself overstretched, declines to back the UK in the same way David B. Larter 28 Jul 19 1246 8