Damn, guess we should go back to our own borders
Good thing we can operate on several fronts.
So you don’t believe in free trade? Without navy ships the global trade market is destroyed and the world quickly falls in a World War.
Evel Knievel couldn’t have made that leap…
The US Navy is the global security provider of free trade on the sea. It is one of their core functions. To ‘just go back to our own borders’ would be to completely remove the only naval force cable of providing security for free trade on the sea and thus remove huge portions of safe, navigable waters for said trade.
Who else has the navy to make it happen? China’s navy has no range, France and England’s navies have the range but aren’t large enough. Everyone else’s navy is too small and can’t deploy at range.
The boats can’t go on land sadly
Dry docking.
Suuure… Just like those boats in the Tonkin bay leading to the Vietnam war
The Vietnam War started long before that.
This is at least the third incident in the last month. In the last two, Yemen shot missiles at US and Israeli assets. Yemen needs to calm the fuck down.
Yemen is a puppet of Iran. The Houthi, anyway.
Yeah, they don’t like us much.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement
Yep, as a place where:
According to the UN, over 150,000 people have been killed in Yemen (From wikipedia)
They should really calm the fuck down
I fail to see how that’s relevant here.
Are they allowed to shoot Missiles at other People now?
Given that the US is an ally of Saudi Arabia, at least regarding the conflict in Yemen, yes they are. I mean they’re also Irani puppets but pretending this is unprovoked when these people are getting killed using US weapons is disingenuous.
Guess the ship should’ve just blasted back then.
It would be their right, so long as they could hit the person who sent the drone at them, and only that person.
Those are the best people to fire missiles at.
It’s the material conditions making them shoot missiles, you see
Yemen is not one country, but rather in a similar situation to Syria. One Yemeni government is supported by Saudi Arabia while the Houthis, who shot the missiles and are unrecognized, are supported by Iran
I just don’t understand who they didn’t track it back to its source and leave a crater wherever that is.
The US already provides weapons which allow the saudis to bomb the houthis
Yeah man Yemen
We’ve been supporting war in Yemen for a bit now. I think since 2014, so nearly a decade. This is the natural result of such. Maybe we need to just stay out of middle eastern blood feuds if we don’t want to have our ships attacked?
I guarantee Iran is using these chuckle-fucks to gauge our ships’ defenses.
doubtful, they know that ships have multiple ways to shut down their drones. It’s just to be a fly buzzing around the the metaphorical head of the ship
If I wanted to know more about my enemy I’d send flies at his head
Hasn’t anyone learned? From the founding of America until present day, don’t fuck with our boats. We will issue a ‘proportional’ response.
You joke but something like half the wars we fought in the 1800s at least tangentially involved “FUCK YOU OUR BOATS CAN GO WHEREVER THE FUCK THEY WANT TO GO AND YOU CAN CRY ABOUT IT IF YOU CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT IT!”
Although it probably was inevitable given just how important sea faring was to keep trade with the outside world open.
The Navy was founded because pirates were fucking with our boats.
Pretty sure the Marines too
You wouldn’t download an aircraft carrier
“Temper, temper”
You just need to say its a accident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Hell, at that point in time, the USA probably didn’t think they were gonna be a country for much longer. Lol
Swede here. Please tell us more about “Fucking with US boats”.
In 2005, USS Ronald Reagan, a newly constructed $6.2 billion dollar aircraft carrier, sank after being hit by multiple torpedoes.
Yet despite making multiple attacks runs on the Reagan, the Gotland was never detected.
This outcome was replicated time and time again over two years of war games, with opposing destroyers and nuclear attack submarines succumbing to the stealthy Swedish sub.
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You realize that was a simulation right? It says so in the very top of the article. It was an exercise, military training for everyone involved.
No, Sweden did not sink a US Aircraft Carrier lmfao.
Just accept the fact that the only reason the US didn’t lose an aircraft carrier was not because superiority…
It was because Sweden was playing.
Well, it’s because it was a war game. It’s a diesel electric sub, which are particularly small and cheap and easy to stealth, but very limited range. They’re great for coastal defence, but that’s also their only use. The carrier was in a position it shouldn’t have been, which is why this was allowed to happen. It’s a good thing to war game because it allows you to identify flaws and create strategies to avoid them. In a real war, it likely wouldn’t happen. Even if it did, one carrier isn’t the entire US Navy. The response would be deafening.
Anyway, carriers are probably a thing of the past if I had to guess. With modern drone warfare, I’m expecting much smaller more agile vehicles to make a comeback. Carriers are too much of sitting ducks. They’re giant slow targets. That’s why they’re always in a fleet with a bunch of other vessels required to defend it. We’ll see though.
It’s ok to claim that the US spent millions of dollars leasing a submarine to train on a situation that would never happen. I’m pretty sure there might be some not so insignificant people disagreeing with you though.
I don’t think it was leased. It was a NATO wargame. It was volunteered, as Sweden is a part of NATO.
Sweden isn’t part of NATO, Norway and Finland are. Turkey keeps vetoing their admission for political reasons.
I know some people who served on Gotland. I know for a fact that it was leased. Twice. The lease was renewed partly because of the US Navy having the problems they had. However, the exercise was never about Swedish submarines.
It was all about Chinese submarines.
Edit: “as Sweden is a part of NATO”… You’re kidding, right? NATO is not letting us to become a member. Our application has been blocked by Turkey for like a year now.
This was a war game between allies to find potential gaps in their stragety. Everyone learned something from two years of experience. So everyone involved wins.
During war games against the US, they handicap pretty heavily. If you read about the F-35 being intercepted by 70’s/80’s era jets, it’s because they HEAVILY handicapped themselves. Done for two reasons. Improve improvisation during actual combat and not show exactly what the equipment can do.
Doing reading outside your source, the USS Regan wasn’t ‘sunk’ During the games. If the real torpedoes had hit, somehow getting past the torpedo defenses, it would have still been afloat and towed/escorted for repairs.
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As a Veteran this information is interesting indeed. It’s always nice to see little knowledge nuggets. Thank you.
While I think that was a good exercise that helped highlight weaknesses and vulnerabilities in US doctrine and equipment, it’s important to note that in nearly all wargames and exercises, the US operates in worst possible conditions to better bring potential problems to the surface, such as a carrier operating without it’s usual extended support and only utilizing assets in the carrier group proper. The Gotland and other AIP submarines were very good, but this was nearly 20 years ago and new techniques and equipment have been developed to aid in detecting and chasing them away.
This is the same song second verse of F-22s being shot down in wargames over the last 20 years, with the F-22 being limited by rules of the wargame such as keeping their fuel tanks equipped and use of certain equipment and features barred, putting the F-22 in a situation it could only find itself in if the operator defied every aspect of their doctrine they had spent the last 4+ years training under.
Not to discredit the exercise, the US learned the assets they had at hand were not up to snuff in dealing with potential threats being developed, and some assumptions proven wrong about what the last line of defenses they did have could deal with.
this and what op said are cool info, thanks
A) that’s a simulation, the Ronald Reagan is still very much afloat
B) you totally missed the point … which wasn’t “my boat is bigger (read better) than your boat” but “if you touch my boat, we gonna have a problem… and you ain’t gonna like the outcome”
