Radar horizon.

Lol...nice fantasy. You’re going to board a burning carrier with your elite commandos to assault it AFTER hitting it with 3-4 1000lb warheads to “keep everyone head’s down”.

Well..given they stopped making the MAT-120 lets use a variant of the 120mm M984 with 54 M80 dual-purpose submutions. Assume a 50m dispersion pattern and you’re killing 12 boats per minute starting around 10km because in this case, like hand grenades and horseshoes, close counts. The Mk46’s max effective range is…

“The idea isn’t to SINK it, the idea is to CAPTURE it!”

And once or twice just a coast guard cutter.

Add a Patria AMOS to the LCS and you’re done.

You want this version of the CB90:

Yes, if you use tactics that the sim can’t handle and then the Blue force defenses are made to stand down because of a in game limitation it’s really easy to kill the blue force.

None of which applied near Aden. The houthis don’t have any of this.

The claim, as I understand it, is that the fleet squadrons are all able to do the needed missions.

Hmmm...is there a vulture’s row on these ships?

Army CWO pilots > butter bar Marine pilots

Turboprops are one class of jet engines in as much as they rely on a gas turbine for propulsion. Unlike the turboshaft engines in a helo they often still do generate a jet exhaust even if the primary mechanism is the prop.

"This also leaves open the question, in an emergency or by a mistake, what happens if a F-35B lands on a different spot?"

This is sort of like saying jets were a game changer in 1944 and now it's just a factor.

"Air Superiority is going to come from sheer numbers in a state on state war, not stealth because both sides are able to defeat it "

Golden hour makes even my photos pretty.

With a 230 kt cruise speed for the SB>1 or 280 kt cruise speed for the V-280 the gunship versions of these vertical lift platforms will not be much slower than the 300 kt cruise speed of the A-10A.

Not the issue.

yah.