I cannot resist

I would be interested to understand the plan to maintain stealth with any acoustic based system. Certainly a bunch of drones pinging would not reveal the location of the manned/armed submarine, but it would reveal its presence.

Nomex is actually worse than FR cotton, extremely hot and scratchy. You’d think Rae fiberglass would be better after a few hours in it.

Nomex

“Once a bubblehead, always a bubblehead”

Plus they eat vegimite sandwiches

It was good enough to drop some 16" in for rock n roll .... but then again, general area was good enough for 16"

I’m not in favor of ditching NATO, but, there is something wrong about an international treaty with others in widespread non compliance with the obligations of that same treaty.

Deep as a parking lot puddle? Isn’t the expectation that treaty members comply with treaty obligations kind of core to the treaty?

Crowd sourcing, war bonds, taxes .... same thing, except for the motivation to not speak Russian (again).

Drones have certainly moved front and enter to the modern battlefield. I remember the marvel in the PGW when we were using these for NGF support, now almost every in depth article about modern tactics includes drones.

Which is part of the issue.

The treaty obligation, agreed to years ago, doesn’t contain the fuzzy accounting, so why should that fuzzy accounting be considered acceptable?

What does Trump have to do with most of the NATO nations not meeting, for many years, their treaty agreed defense spending targets?

Just out of curiosity, why should a refugee crisis in 2016 be considered a pass on treaty established spending guidelines set years prior?

Ice breakers are useless in a traditionally naval power role. They are not armed, and even if they were, they make enough noise to be heard 500 miles away, they can’t maneuver (nor can anything behind them), and anti submarine weapons are useless through ice.

Comey clearly had his eye on the future during Clinton case I & II

I’m quite certain more than a few of the US Navy’s finest bubbleheads are already hanging out playing cribbage off the Chinese coast.

It does show an increasing belligerence that I struggle to see a peaceful way out of without a confrontation. The Chinese certainly seem to have an expansionist agenda here. The key to it will be how the local SCS nations react. Certainly the recent phillipeans reaction blunted The Hague ruling.

It is crazy, and to make safety a leading issue vs lagging issue, it has to change.