In reality, as more and more countries manufacture their own cheap drones, the US Navy needs to think about the manufacturing process getting to the point where a 500 swarm drone barrage is as common as regular military shells being launched because it will get there soon, and maybe those large cannons can be made of use.
One of the best defenses against a single drone that is cheap and cost affective was my original assertion, about using a shotgun, which Russia immediately adopted on the battlefield and proved affective. If some of those older battleships with 16 inch guns can be put online and could shoot pellets, sand, or rock salt, it would in affect be like the US Navy carrying a big shot gun, and most ships have about 6 of them that could blanket probably close a mile wide worth of drones. We have about 8 older battleships that could come online with a little effort and funding. The nice thing is that, they won't have to move much once in the theatre due to modern carriers with their radars and air assets.
The Navy is building a lot of legend variant cutter vessels which seem to be void of cruise missiles and submarine hunting capabilities as a cheaper alternative to keep up China's mass naval production. While they can travel 14k miles between refueling, they tend to be vulnerable or strong in certain areas depending on how they are outfitted. We already have F35s that can carry ordinance for just about any task with stealth capabilities, although the range of the F35's loaded are around 600 miles without refueling. I would rather see these new legend cutters designed to house 1 F35 with munitions, and have submarine, long and short range air sea defense capabilities than a host of different missile capabilities for long range ground attacks, meaning cruise missiles. The end goal is a survivable ship, first and foremost, carrying 1 F35c that can handle the rest and make many more of those vessels, covering more area and dispersion. We have a few large super carriers housing 90 planes, and attack vessels carrying hundreds of cruise missiles, but we need dispersion and count as many of our larger cruise missile carrying vessels are taken out of commission in the u coming years.
As good as super carriers are with their 90 planes, they still have to launch and land, one at a time, which is a bottleneck. Add to it, time to travel to mission way points of hundreds of miles for each plane in a coordinate attack, adds to the time costing. Whereas smaller cheaper long range legend cutter ships, even though only with one capable F35c fully loaded, can be dispersed across hundreds of miles, and can launch all F35s simultaneously, or randomly, giving the US advantages of reach, element of surprise, patrolling, and quicker response times. The key point to success using legend cutter strike groups in this manner, would be survivability from submarines and incoming missiles attacks. Cutters could also reach theaters of operations faster than super carriers too, not only by the speed principle but by the dispersion factor.
Exactly. We have about 8 that could easily be brought up to par. Drones are the biggest problem in my mind, due to the overwhelming factor, which we have seen both Russia and Ukraine subjected to. I honesty believe barrages of 500 drones are going to be as common as a shell launch or MRLS. We have seen how Iran , NK, and China contributed drones to bolster the battlefield, it is just a question of time, and the US could run into that situation with either Iran or Cuba in the near future. I think we should consider this, because those battleships would be one big shot gun that could cover those swarms immediately if we could retrofit them with some type of pellet munition.
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Cuba could be the next theater of operations as their economy is in severe trouble now that there is no Venezuelan oil. No flights due to lack of gas, the electricity is shutdown for 20 hours a day, and that means even farming is much more difficult. There is a US naval blockade, so Russia and China have lost access. There may be a civil war as a result. Miguel Díaz-Canel is the current leader of Cuba, serving as both President of Cuba and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2019 and 2021, respectively. He is the first person not from the Castro family to hold these top positions since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. The Cubans lost 36 soldiers that were defending Maduro. They have enforced all citizens to become a standing army for the Regime, of about 1 million people, to stand against the US. In reality, they brought it upon themselves for fostering a soft fentanyl genocide plan against the US for decades. Mr. Diaz should really be on the phone with President Trump trying to make a deal, before one of his own decides to create new leadership. I think Trump should have Maduro reason with him about the gravity of situation and tell him why he was happy to be in US custody. The hardliner communist countries and even Iran, in reality, opposed the US mainly because of our value system and tolerance of degenerate values and most of them would actually help foster it to bring us down quicker, or at least, want to assure that it never comes to their country. This is something to work with as we are cleaning it out of our society and have recognized it as the toxic culture that it is. Cuba should ask President Trump to be annexed and become a state of the US, because all other roads will lead to extreme poverty and a civil war, which the communist leaders will either be ousted by violence or cause violence that would lead to US intervention. They contributed to the loss of hundreds of thousands of Americans with their fentanyl narco terrorism through Venezuela, either join now or pay later.