They'll probably never have to work that hard. The attack, and disabling of, critical infrastructure will ensure most of their theater and tactical objectives are met long before the first kinetic strike on airfields and mobile platforms.
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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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If you’re referring to EABO, I haven’t seen anything out of the USAF that really explains how they intend to sustain those low cost airfields in the WEZ with fuel, parts, and weapons. And the PRC doesn’t need to send unicorn missiles, like the ones needed to kill an aircraft carrier, to kill parked aircraft or other critical/vulnerable nodes. Trash LACMs or even OWA drones in sufficient quantities will do just fine.
Have heard secondhand through War College types that some USAF classmates seemed to think the Navy was working on that. But it’s been a few years so maybe they’ve finally figured that all out, but I’m skeptical.
Airfield defense against air and missile attack is, of course, also someone else’s problem. Presumably Army ADA.
That said, I’m not sure anybody is actually highly likely to be operationally relevant to directly countering a Taiwan Straits invasion or striking key military nodes on the mainland besides the submarine force and maybe possibly AF Global Strike. At least nobody else is real likely to be able to operate directly in the WEZ with anything like the survivability we have previously been accustomed to.
Have heard secondhand through War College types that some USAF classmates seemed to think the Navy was working on that. But it’s been a few years so maybe they’ve finally figured that all out, but I’m skeptical.
Airfield defense against air and missile attack is, of course, also someone else’s problem. Presumably Army ADA.
That said, I’m not sure anybody is actually highly likely to be operationally relevant to directly countering a Taiwan Straits invasion or striking key military nodes on the mainland besides the submarine force and maybe possibly AF Global Strike. At least nobody else is real likely to be able to operate directly in the WEZ with anything like the survivability we have previously been accustomed to.
Look how close the Houthis got to touching our boats.
The Chinese will be better than the Houthis.
This is a significant problem set and it isn't solved by more boats or more exped bases on little islands.
The USMC was dumb to get the D model. Skipping the SH wasn't terrible. If they were smart they would have bought into the F-15E enterprise. Having a permanently land based airplane that has the weight and structure penalty of carrier ops capability is absolutely stupid in my book.
And it's going to be more than filling an airfield with cement. We're going to run out of trained people and equipment before we run out of the ability to pour cement.