They are for now. In 10 years (tops) surface combatants will be obsolete due to hypersonic missiles. The fact that we are still spending gillions of dollars maintaining and building more of these soon to be dinosaurs is in itself a strong testimony to the deep embeddedness of the old school military industrial complex D.C. guard and their puppets in Congress and the Pentagon. For real.
I very much question the readiness of our warships on a swarm of volleys. Shit's ubiquitous with drone tech. I have great respect for the simplicity of Russian defense programs.....oh you have a tank w/ceramic armor? Let me build this RPG that'll take care of that and cost cents on the dollar. I suppose we gave them a similar taste when the Afghanis took their choppers down w/Stinger missiles.
I never thought i'd say this but when you separate yourself from politics you actually say really smart stuff. You're 100% right. If you go back and read about Russian espionage their primitive technology was able to defeat some of our most sophisticated stuff. They used hollowed out wooden dowels to put a layer of protection from their metallic microphones so that we couldn't detect them when we did sweeps. Russia is VERY VERY smart. We were stubborn and refused to believe that they had listening devices until our Navy Seebees came in and tore apart the room.
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That's also true lol. Going to happen with hypersonics as well. Spending way above their means for something they will be ahead for a very short time on. The materials for that type of weapon aren't there based on what i've read.
Agreed send in all useless people from both countrys and get rid, the LGTB that hate straight men, the PCs that are so offended by all they can barely function, it'll make compost out if them. Don't worry we'll send regular artillery incase they won't fight well obvisously.