It was OT and it’s expected even for operational aircraft early in the deployment phase:

Yes, it’s a bit of an odd duck but current missiles like the Klub (SS-N-27) and Oniks (SS-N-26) are considered potent. And the older Granits and Moskits are no slouches either.

Lol. I expected more grit from a 3rd generation combat pilot.

The truth is that while all combat is likely more or less equally stressful in terms of PTSD, where the duration matters a lot more, the one being emotional is you.

I’m not minimizing the sacrifices of current service members or their families but what you wrote was dumb. Then you doubled down on dumb.

I’m not minimizing the

Unlike any other time in U.S. History? Ever hear of WWII? And during the sailing era cruises were pretty long even in peacetime.

Well, you can get a beer and company at MWR Bahrain. Beats the fuck out of shipboard alternatives.

In that mass launch, those 4 or 5 ships in the SAG outguns most Navies.

The new designated smoking area is now the port fantail...

If one SM-2 doesn’t work you fire the next. If necessary from the other VLS.

You launch nothing because you’re on your way home or the bottom. WTF do you do when you run out of 16” or 5”? Same thing.

Yes, because we’ve never had a large caliber gun malfunction.

Yes, but one is badass and the other bogged down in Yemen.

“I’m certain any military analyst out there could spot this easily. Is it less that it was “hidden” and more that it just wasn’t advertised but everyone knew it was out there?”

Nah. The IDF released this info a few days ago. It’s been making the rounds of the tank oriented sites long before here.

And yet LCS didn’t go away when we lost NLOS and certainly it’s no where near the same ASuW mission area capability originally envisioned. The Mk46 is good for Boghammers but not missile armed FACs. My opinion is that the fleet is going to use them more as OHP replacements than as FAC/gunboat destroyers.

Weird, looks like the forum ate a response and we’re just going back and forth anyway. The only thing I will re-address from the lost posts is:

Neither of which would validate your fallacious argument.

The Falklands taught us that this technique works just fine. Radar Pickets and all.