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https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1aft47l/houthi_cruise_missile_comes_within_a_mile_of_a_us/
https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1afqrts/a_cruise_missile_launched_by_the_houthis_into_the/
90~ missiles on a destroyer. This is where I think the breaking point will be for Operation Amazon Prime. They can't effectively resupply these ships and they're burning expensive missiles on cheap drones/less advanced missiles. At some point the Houthis are going to get a lucky strike when stocks are depleted or the US will be forced to exhaust more ships it can't maintain/staff/train.
Lmao, the amount of comments the mods removed for OPSEC reasons at the bottom of that thread on the Navy subreddit, are the big wet sailor boys and girls really that stupid?
Two words: warthunder forums
New headline for 2028: how the addition of modern ships to war thunder lead to a sinking of a US destroyer in the South China Sea. Video games banned in all NATO countries.
Man multipolarity is going to come at gun point if nothing else. If you can’t enforce shipping lanes and regional powers have to that’s the end of the hegemon. It will be interesting to see if the the US continues to not even attempt a diplomatic solution in Palestine if they’re forced out because the occupation becomes untenable or if we somehow do war communism again to be~~at~~ the Nazis. iirc I read that it would currently take two years production time to fully restock the navy with missiles at current rates let alone the cost to do so
"But don't worry Taiwan, we totes have your back. Pinky promise."
yea this is why "targeted" in those battle reports is as significant as "hit", just in a different way
I've been saying this since the start. These ships have to make port to resupply, there is no aerial or naval resupply method during operation.
The limits of the US navy are its ammunition capacity. If you exhaust the on-board stocks, you have effectively defeated it.
The naval equivalent of carrying a .44 and no extra rounds
It's effectively like deploying a squad. In most troop to troop combat if you can pin down the enemy and exhaust their supplies you can defeat the opponent by way of making them use up all their ammunition, effectively rendering them unable to fight back. At that point they effectively have to either retreat or surrender. The difference with a front line though is that you can have supply lines keeping them operating.
The same applies to these ships, except there's no resupplying them while in operation, so you don't have a frontline+supply lines scenario, you just have to exhaust them to cause their withdrawal.
I'm not sure where they would resupply... Maybe Cyprus or Malta is a viable place? Malta has a US base while Cyprus has a UK base. I think it's reasonably likely they would use C130s to transport missiles to one of these bases for resupply.
That C130 pilot has the opportunity to do something really funny and also morally upright
Don't they have a base at Djibouti?
Yes but there's no way they are making these ships stationary targets so close to Yemen.
It seems like "A ship's a fool to fight a fort" still rings true if we understand "fort" to be various missile installations on land.
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