About as often as I need 170hp on a 450 pound motorcycle......better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

You can make the argument that G

WTF I thought that Sean pretty much created Lanesplitter.

Guess what the usual procedure for getting rid of annoying flyboys is. It has nothing to do with CWIS, and everything to do with the radars

The are essentially the same thing, different host nation. I guess I just imagine the Japanese ships that I pass everyday at work.

10Kw in the case of that ship.

She’s forward deployed out of Spain, the Cook is basically ALWAYS in the area.

They wouldn’t see the gun they WOULD see the dome move. If you can pick out a set of 4 foot long barrels spining while you are flying by north of 200mph and you aren’t a pilot you sir are in the wrong line of work.

You wouldn’t attack a Warship that close. Particularly a DDG that is DESIGNED to defend against air-targets, that is what Aegis does, its design goal was to defend against Soviet Saturation attacks. That was in the 70s and 80s, and the Navy has been upgrading the platform the entire time.

You think that the CIWIS illumination data isn’t out there? It has been for decades.

If they made Phalanx engage there would be two less planes in the Russian inventory

They do, and they always have.

Aegis has a couple MEGAwatt RADAR already, its called SPY-1 in addition to SPG-62 CWI illuminators....that put out 10KW a pop.

The US is a founding member of NATO, as it exists there is no such thing as a “NATO” base, every base is owned by some country, normally whomever’s base it is has sovereign power over the base, but this isn’t always the case. In Japan for instance the US bases are wholly Japanese territory thus Japanese law applies.

Ummmmm you are saying there are no NATO bases in Japan or South Korea? About 100,000 active duty US military would like to say HI!

They can, the US doesn’t restrict peaceful transit, you are more likely to find the Russians in the Bearing though, its not as long of a drive.

Oddly enough I docked in Vladivostock Russia when when I was in the Navy, playing fuck fuck games back and forth has been a thing going back to the 50s between our two countries. That many runs is a bit brazen.....hence the diplomatic complaints, but drive bys happen all the time.

Yeah, that didn’t happen. If you manged to shut down a warships, you would also kill the plane....ships don’t fall out of the sky when they lose power. Remember the skin Destroyer is over an inch of iron.

Lockheed Martin is a business, they are trying to sell. Since the ship already has VLS accommodation it would be a matter of comabat system changes. Currently its SSDS Mk1, which is along the lines of a BL7 Aegis platfrom, SSDS MK2 shares architecture with the Aegis BL9, either could be have the required…

You know the CB500X has been out for a couple of years now?