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Eh, a carrier is a whole nother thing.

One carrier with a flight detail would be in the top ten most powerful Air Force's on the planet, and we've got like 7 of them?

And that's not counting all the support in a carrier group.

There are certain types of drone attacks that might have some effect on a carrier, but it would take an insane amount of preparation and be inconceivably expensive.

At most theyd have 1-2 attempts, it would be the modern equivalent of the WW2 nukes if someone could sink a modern US carrier, even in a surprise attack to start a war.

Quantity has a quality of its own

This is a lesson America knew back in the WWII days when they countered the superior Tiger and Leopard Panzers with Sherman tanks, but seems to have forgotten in recent times with its multitude of white elephant projects for "superior systems" which are much more expensive whilst yielding tiny improvements over existing systems.

Meanwhile the era of the drone is upon us, and that's all about using said "quality of its own" of masses of cheap and easy to make drones.

I think that underestimating China in current year is one of the most disatrous things you could possibly do.

Yeah, but we all know that Russia is a country run by slovenly drunken morons with institutional ignorance, while China is country who has its shit totally together. I'm not that afraid of Russia, but China is terrifying.

After MAGA, China will be the dominant world power, and we will find out what it feels like to be a country who has to sit back and hope the machinations of other governments are good for us, and accept whatever we get.

Russia had prepared itself for the usual American strategy of a Carrier Group sitting out far way from the coast and throwing long range cruise missiles and fighter jets at it whilst too far away to be hit by return fire - as used for decades now, for example in the Gulf War - by developing hypersonic missiles and advanced AA capable of shooting down those fighter jets and cruise missiles.

Then they went and started a land war with their next door neighbor - which is almost the opposite military scenario of that which they prepare themselves for - plus on top of it it turned out EVERYBODY was on the take in their Military so it was a hollowed out shell far lesser than it seemed on paper and finally, to add insult to injury, the era of the drone was upon us changing the nature of land warfare as well as on the long range side making mass attacks with cheap quasi-cruise missiles possible.

Given the geography of it if they attack Taiwan, China is - unlike Russia - almost certainly going to be facing the decades old way of American sea-based force projection in the form of the Carrier Group, which is the one they've prepared themselves to counter.

The US seems the only vountry with more corruption in military procurement than China.

America has long wasted tons of its military budget in things with tiny or even no Return On Investment in terms of additional effectiveness for every extra dollar spent.

In a sense the greatest enemy of the US is itself, in the form of the MIL and Corruption from the lowest levels to the highest.

I mean, notice the recent change in the budget for the military which this year removed the Right To Repair for the Military, something which does nothing other than hinder Military effectiveness whilst further enriching military hardware suppliers.

The way the money is misused and redirected to feather the nests of large military companies' shareholders and CxOs, as well retired Procurement Generals who move to cushy jobs in the very companies they bought overpriced items from and MIL-friendly politicians in subcommittees approving white elephant military projects, is sort of a twisted mirror version of what happened in Russia were everybody in positions of power was on the take and their military when finally faced with a proper adversary at the same technological level - in the form of Ukraine - turned out to be a lot less than it seemed on paper.

Also America went down a route similar to Germany in WWII when they went for tanks like the Tiger Panzer which were peak-tech and very costly to manufacture, which the Allies countered by just throwing lots and lots of not-quite-as-perfect yet much cheaper and faster to manufacture tanks like the Sherman at it.

America has the biggest military budget in the World by a large margin, but also outright wastes a huge fraction of it and pays top premium for small incremental improvements, so the results aren't as impressive as one would expect from just looking at money spent.

If you want to see efficient use of a military budget, look at Ukraine.

That has to be the most random string of words that actually works ever constructed.

Like, US subs will have a bunch of people literally banging on the inside of the hull so enemy radar picks them up and "destroys" them too.

I'm not a radar operator but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. Banging on the hull doesn't produce radar emissions.

we should just give nukes to everyone, then whoevers dumb enough to use em will wipe themselves out in short order

I don't like giving US credit... But all of that means nothing and is all speculative.

If US does one thing well? It's invent shit so advanced, even when captured it can't be reproduced. Russia has fallen flat on its face, where's all that military might? You want me to believe China is that different? I'm having major doubts there. Hopefully I'm never proven wrong. Hopefully we never find out. But this sort of shit was said before Ukraine invasion yet here we are...