• Carmakazi@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    I’m wondering about how they’re going to get them there in the first place. Both landing craft and rotorcraft are going to be very vulnerable if our air power can’t silence Iranian fire (which is seemingly the whole reason why this is “necessary”).

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      It takes $500 to stop an oil tanker because they’re, well, floating buckets of flammable material, with no armouring or defense capability.

      It takes a lot more to stop an amphibious landing.