Think about it: Our nation is protected by 20-year-old E-3s supervised by 25-year-old E-5s and commanded by 30-year-old O-3s.

So, now, the biggest distributor of Humvee parts is the 173rd Airborne Brigade?

thats not a tow hook, it isn’t red. or has jeep lied to me

Trades?

I think you’re missing my point - that big, slow target needs to be defended regardless. Why not give it some capacity to defend itself so it can supplement the defense by more combat capable ships? Adding missiles and an AEGIS system wouldn’t remove the need to escort it, it would partially reduce the burden of the…

Do you know how hard it is to find a picture of Gozilla attacking a Navy ship!

Bwahahah, at least give it a little credit... it is infinitely more likely to be done than the Browns getting to the Super Bowl.

But if that slow, vulnerable ship can provide supplemental radar and missile coverage to it’s task force, doesn’t that make sense? Assume that in a conventional war you won’t have enough Arleigh Burkes to effectively cover everything that needs escorting. These might reduce the number of Arleigh Burkes required to…

the "cruiser in a cornfield"

Look, if we're going to Hellcat everything, we might as well Aegis everything.

Or wait for seagulls to fly in front of the radar

So when you guys feel like eating barbeque, do you just throw the meat in front of the antennas for a couple of minutes?

Well, in a network centric warfare scenario, with Aegis equipped escorts, or some sort of “half way” aegis equipped escorts with the ability to hand over control of its weapons systems to the LPD, this could bring you a few advantages:

Given the realestate on the sides of the superstructure on the LPD, you could have a…

It should be pointed out that both the SPY-1 AEGIS radar system and the Mk 41 Vertical Launch System are scalable by design - which means a San Antonio LPD could receive either system as less capable than what’s typically on a destroyer. There’s SPY-1A,B,C,D, etc., and while some letter designations represent…

What is that monstrosity? It looks like a self propelled section of a bridge with an observatory welded to the top of it.

Fun fact. The SPY radar on that building came from the USS Cole.

It’s a space capsule.

whats the space capsule lookin thing in the back of that ship?

This is not virtual reality.

You are the most interesting writer on this site. I read every word of every article you write, for whatever that’s worth.