• @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    From now on you must view all of their words and actions through the lens of a fascist dictatorship. This is almost certainly propaganda intended to increase fear of Chinese supremacy and using that fear as an excuse to invade Panama.

    I hard doubt the US doesn’t have classified hypersonic missile tech, and even if they don’t, this admin won’t stop maintaining, building, or deploying these “vulnerable” billion dollar aircraft carriers. Everything conservatives and DOGE cut is everything that benefits the working class, and increases their quality of life and economic mobility. They never cut anything that enables their authoritarian capabilities.

    • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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      337 days ago

      Don’t forget how they were able to slap a basically poor-only tax with their tariff bullshit.

    • @suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      Propaganda can be true sometimes. That the cutting edge of missile tech has been well ahead of the cutting edge of missile defense has been an open secret for at least a decade. It might not be as fast as twenty minutes, but the truth is there is nothing that anybody can do about the most advanced missiles being made today apart from hoping that they miss. The problem with carriers is that they are big, slow targets. Every carrier has this problem, not just the US fleet.

      • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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        67 days ago

        Weren’t there some wargames a few decades ago where some group playing the “terrorists” sank a US carrier with nothing but a few speedboats and some RPGs or something similar? I am thinking of the one where they “rolled back” the wargame. It has been quite a while since I read that so I don’t remember all the details.

      • @real_squids@sopuli.xyz
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        there is nothing that anybody can do about the most advanced missiles being made today apart from hoping that they miss

        You can help them miss. If they’re using GPS navigation, jamming works. It then reverts to inertial navigation though, so the longer you jam - the bigger the error.

        Or you could try shooting it down, I doubt they can even dodge a head-on intercept without losing a load of energy.

        edit: btw the problem you’re describing is why cbg is a thing