President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Stephanie Ruhle with more details and analysis.
I always though the US-Military is almost allmighty. It’s nice to see there are clear limitations to their power.
They are allmighty.
In Hollywood movies!
Wait, are you telling me U571 and Battleship are not documentaries?
They must be fact based though, yeah?
Screw this, I’m going to check for myself. Brb…
Biggest paper tiger in history.
The air force of the army of the US navy (i.e. the air force of the USMC) is bigger than the air forces of all but 3 countries in the world. It’s the 7th largest air force in the world, only beaten by the actual USAF, the army’s air force, the USN air force, and the countries of China, India and Russia (though that last one might be out of date thanks to Ukraine).
The US might not be quite as powerful as it’s sometimes portrayed to be, and might really struggle when it faces tactics that it hasn’t prepared for. But, it’s still a ridiculously powerful military.
Honestly, their K/D/A ratio is pretty shockingly bad, also they’ve quite a few times been feeding (trained Osama, to sick him on another country they didn’t like, Osama came back to bite them in the ass. Gave support to a military Junta by a fascist military, that gov came back to bite them in the ass. Etc etc)
They just have an incredibly good propaganda arm, that makes them look more mighty than they are
The only massive wars the USA ever actually won were the Civil War (against ourselves, doesn’t count) and WWII (when we had almost the entire goddamn world on our side). We got like a participation trophy for WWI. Other than that, it’s all been colonialist bullshit oppression of smaller/weaker countries, there’s never been a direct conflict with another major industrialized country.
I would argue it won the cold war, in a largely peaceful way.
where is the rail gun we see in transformers.
Trump doesn’t like magnets
We’re going back to steam powered cannon
Best we can do is a catapult
And Iran has trebuchets
why not a ballista.
They cut the rail gun program a couple of years back or something.
I seem to recall reading the rail kept melting
I bet, it’s an incredible weapon, I would think it would be a good way to start out payloads into space, instead of just rocket boosters, throw them into the air at 30k mph or whatever, then hit the boosters.
Obviously if people are onboard that wouldn’t work as the gravity force would kill them.
The railgun projectile is comparatively tiny. The energy requirements to put anything of significance into orbit by that method would be prohibitive.
How about Lake Cabo Venezuela, they have so much lightning they can read a newspaper at night over 200 nights of the year.
Find places like that, set up lightning towers, with super heavy wires to carry the current (also prohibitively expensive but would pay for itself in this.) and use that, perhaps combined with added electricity. Lightning is a lot a lot, but just for an instant, which is exactly what a rail gun needs.
But I haven’t done the math maybe it’s too big for lightning idk.
The first rail guns on navy ships had a huge flywheel they would get spinning super fast then kick off electromagnets to bring it to an instant halt and generate a large spike of electricity. I think they had to be replaced regularly because the amount of current would blow them out.