There's a lot of stuff in the US military that's somewhat aged. The aircraft carrier Nimitz is still in service and was commissioned 50 years ago. The B-52 has been in service for longer than that (in fairness the design is that old; the actual airplanes, presumably not). The A10 Warthog was first released in 1977 and is still in use. The AR-15, embodied in the M16 and M4 goes back to the 1960s and the Browning M2 goes back to 1933.
jleyank · 52m ago
Along with various medium to large cargo planes and the world's supply of flagged cargo carriers. I'm not sure there's that many "troops and other things" that require more transport, maybe heavy ammunition. Most of the military power sails or flies places.
empiko · 53m ago
China is building incredible 200x times more ships annually compared to the US. You can imagine what the military implications are.
dmix · 18m ago
In a Taiwan type conflict I'd be more worried about all the advanced Chinese anti-ship ballistic/cruise missiles if I was in the US Navy (not to mention submarine torpedoes and drone ships). That stuff can be launched from land/air even without the hundreds of new ships. I'm not convinced the Navy could operate anywhere close to China in a true conflicts. Those US ship VLS cells will empty out pretty fast trying to shoot them down and submarine detection would heavily slow them down plus limit any logistic chains to resupply. But admittedly I'm no modern expert on the topic, just like reading military wikipedia and twitter.
bluesounddirect · 47m ago
china is also building an ai supercomputer to blockchain the nft's with space lasers!! Enough of this constant fear mongering about china .
ta29 · 39m ago
Which is exactly what China buffs would say until their boot is on the world's face. I'll keep fearmongering, thank you very much.
8b16380d · 30m ago
Thanks Jones Act
frankharv · 41m ago
I don't watch YouTube but here a mariners take.
I notice that there is a very large Car Carrier in Norfolk Drydock getting painted white to grey.
Looks like they are converting commercial vessels to military use.
I can't imagine how they handle in big winds. A giant sail like surface.
Flickertail State Crane Ship was recently out doing testing.
It is old but capable.
Gaza Pier help was a bust.
Those piers are not meant to be installed long term. We looked like clowns.
Not Omaha Beach.
I notice that there is a very large Car Carrier in Norfolk Drydock getting painted white to grey.
Looks like they are converting commercial vessels to military use.
I can't imagine how they handle in big winds. A giant sail like surface.
Flickertail State Crane Ship was recently out doing testing. It is old but capable.
Gaza Pier help was a bust. Those piers are not meant to be installed long term. We looked like clowns. Not Omaha Beach.