Start of conflict mpaka Aug 2022 CVN75 USS Harry Truman was forward deployed to the Med. Spec the Adriatic, off coast of Croatia. Its hawkeye (s) did alot of recon & target acquisitions for Ukrainian - American missiles.
Missiles that sank the Moskva, Neptune, are 100% identical to RGM84 Harpoon USN missiles.
Left for Norfolk late Aug, CVN76 USS GeorgeBush is now forward deployed in the Adriatic. Flightscanner OSINT shows an E-2D always reconnoitering the balkans, upto Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast… Wanaogopa kuingiza hizi warship kubwa Black Sea kwa nini. Floating coffins, these ones. Kwanza RU’s doctrine ya hypersonic, Khinzal & Tsirkons imeingiza US Navy baridi kabisa, they keep zig zagging position si kaa Bosnian conflict they launched assaults from a fixed naval location bila kuogopa
What is gipper76 doing in South China sea? It should be moored in Yokosuka. After Keen Sword 23 had DDG74 transiting Taiwan Strait just after Fujian was done with sea trials, sailors kept at GQ for 4 straight hours, condition Zebra… Wanauliza mchina nini?
It’ll be very interesting, now that PLAN has as many J20s as US has F22s, and their carrier air wing’s manned jets each has 3 GJ11 armed drones that have as much lethality as the USN’s F35s and FA18s
Hii meli ni ya kutisha some countries like African, Asian, central and south American counties. Because a certain country in Europe has weapons to sink those ships and they dont care about the hype of these ships.
Then tell us in CVN78’s latest deployment, she steamed off Norfolk on 4th Oct and arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 28th October. 700 nautical miles in 24 days. 3rd November, it departs Halifax and 14th November, arrives at The Solent. Can’t fit at Portsmouth Harbor, anchors off the Isle of Wight.
18th November, departs from Hampshire anchorage and steams back to Norfolk, arriving Nov 23.
Sailors call this the shortest deployment ever. Why, I wonder. Also note for the FIRST time ever a USN carrier is deployed with a tender USNS Joshua Humphreys and Robert E Peary. And Americans keep laughing at the Russian Carrier Adm Kuznetsov when its forward deployed with a repair tug.
Duru za kuaminika say that its catapults are shite and the old steam ones cope better, they are just too proud to admit that the chinese got the emal systems right while they flopped.
Hizi Khinzal zilifanya mpaka carrier ianze kuenda zig zag.
Mchina naye alitoboa ku jam AN/spy6 radar , main input for AEGIS, and doctrine yake ya manned unmanned teaming shows armed unmanned drones capacity ya ku outmanoeuvre all defenses za CSG, leaving the carrier vulnerable to attack, balaa sana hii.
Kwanza vile PLA are forward deploying military hardware na practising beach landings, hii Taiwan issue looks to get very interesting days to come
Don’t forget China is also in the race of constructing aircraft carriers. China’s third and most advanced aircraft carrier, started sea trials in 2020, the PLA needed at least 200 qualified carrier-based fighter jet pilots to operate 130 ship-borne aircraft, Beijing-based naval expert Li Jie said. PLA plans to add another two aircraft carriers to its fleet by 2030. This is despite the reckoning they will face from Ohio class SSGN (Ship, Submersible, Guided, Nuclear) submarines. Point is to project naval supremacy, a country needs aircraft carriers as part of its arsenal and they don’t come cheap.
Submarine warfare ni ngumu siku hizi. PLAN destroyers’ CIC have a full time dedicated ASW officer, almost same level na TAO, manning the sonar. As long as the props spin, the destroyer’s passive sonar will locate them by cavitation long before they get in a firing position.
Ikikaa silent, active sonar by false decoy sonobuoys will triangulate their exact location, and NavyTimes quotes chinese ASROCs as nextgen…ata torpedos hatujasema.
These chinks illuminated fire control radar at a US Navy sub in the South China Sea OCT last year, SUB wakitorokea torpedo wakagonga an offshore drilling rig’s substructure The Story Of How The Submarine USS Connecticut Crashed | The Drive
Then wanatuambia ati it struck an uncharted sea mount. Men from Annapolis are no longer what they used to be, captains wa 70s na 80s were fearless men with balls of steel that never run away from a fight. From advent of SSBNs, and with comfort that they can fire nukes at the enemy from safe distances, submarine warfare is not what it used to be.
Chinese naval doctrine does not factor force projection. They don’t need 11 carriers patrolling the world’s waters. They said 4 or 5 are enough, they can support a carrier air wing that can control an equal number of armed unmanned drones that can match ALL manned aircraft as can be launched by ALL USN CARRIERs, from Nimitz to Gerard Ford.
US ndio iko interested na enforcing “democracy” that they feel the need to send destroyers to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden (DDG68 USS The Sullivans juzi juzi blew up a wooden dhow off the coast of Yemen suspected of narcotrafficking)
Inspite of China having almost similar number of destroyers you’ll never hear them supporting hostile activities half a globe away from their territorial waters. And yes, the South China Sea is well within their territorial waters
Floating coffin, yes. Slow, hell naw
CVN 65 USS Enterprise hit 55knots in her sea trials, made a rooster tail so huge and the bow was launched at about 15⁰ to sea surface. 55 knots is 100km/hr. Imagine a 100,000 ton behemoth steaming at 100km/hr. Outran all her escorts. And she sustained it for 27 mins…
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Try researching top speed of any US Navy carrier, utapata iko classified. But destroyers, cruisers, frigates, usu max out at flank speed of 32 knots, and can’t sustain it for long.
Back to Enterprise
Her 4 screws at flank speed, torsion on the shafts from engines was about 90⁰. The torque you need to twist a steel bar of diameter 450mm by 90⁰ , amazing. She was the first nuclear carrier, only retired juzi. Hawaii Five O first season has epic shots of her before she was retired.
What he means is that , all 13t is vanity for wars which will never be won , yaani murica will never go to war with a country and win… A. K. A “name a war they have been to… excluding occupations”,waiweke tu pale port like a car in a collectors garage , their sanctions suffices no need for monstrosities, kifua kando
As Chinese vessels are increasing in number, the more they are venturing further into blue waters. They have even engaged pirates in Indian Ocean. China long term aim is to be equal if not better militarily than US, just check how their military budget is increasing each year. They will need to project force far and wide to protect their economic interests.
Just the other day an article on business daily reported that there are concerns that China intends to build a naval base in Lamu along the port being constructed
China husema over and over, they are not interested in projecting force, only protecting territorial integrity. They even have a rap song on it, ngoja niitafute. Ubaya iko in chinese, naeza kutafsiria
Waste of taxpayers money. Reminds me of the ultra-expensive James Webb space telescope that cost billions of dollars but hasn’t brought us any meaningful images so far
If Kenya was to buy land, construct an airbase with a hangar for 78 fighter planes, a runaway, barracks with all facilities for 9000 airmen and staff, how much will it cost? That is an aircraft carrier for you. All subsahara airforce combined and its facilties will not equal one of this aircraft carrier. An air craft carrier is not just a warship, but a moving airbase and airport.