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Navy Decoded
CVN-77 feeds 5,000 crew 18,000 meals per day. USS Ford left the war zone after a laundry room fire — no enemy, no missile, a laundry fire. What is actually the weakest point on an aircraft carrier?
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100 drones at $500 each = $50,000 total. 1 hypersonic missile = $10 million. Both aimed at your carrier. The drones overwhelm by numbers. The missile overwhelms by speed. You're the captain. Which keeps you awake at night?
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LOCUST laser kills a drone for $5 in electricity. SM-6 kills the same drone for $5 million. But the laser only works within 3 nautical miles. SM-6 reaches 200+ miles. One is cheap. One actually reaches the threat. Which do you bet your ship on?
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The US Navy spends over $3 billion per year fighting corrosion. Salt eats steel 24/7. The Navy spends more keeping ships from rusting than buying new missiles. The real enemy of the fleet has no flag.
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EA-18G Growler carries zero bombs. Zero attack missiles. It kills by blinding every radar within 100 nautical miles. The enemy can't shoot what it can't see. Is electronic warfare a weapon — or is it cheating?
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A Mk 48 torpedo costs $4M and hits from below — where ship armor is thinnest. An anti-ship missile costs $5M and hits from above at Mach 3 — but Aegis can intercept it. You're attacking a carrier. Which do you fire?
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 57
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SM-6 needs 4 seconds to reach Mach 3.5. A hypersonic missile at Mach 7 covers 7 nautical miles in those same 4 seconds. The interceptor is fast. The question is whether 4 seconds is already too late.
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 69
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An Arleigh Burke carries 96 VLS cells. In a saturation attack, all 96 can fire in under 2 minutes. After that? A $2 billion ship with zero missiles. The Navy still can't reload VLS at sea.
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A naval mine costs as little as $800. An Arleigh Burke destroyer costs $2 billion. One mine in the right spot takes a $2 billion warship out of the war. No radar can see it. No missile can stop it.
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CIWS Phalanx fires 75 rounds per second. Each 20mm round costs $35. That's $2,625 every second to stop a $500 drone. The drone only needs to get lucky once.
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