[Skybird]

Both the new Russian ICBM-capable hypersonic carrier vehicle - Avenger or how it was called - and the Chinese effort to make the deep blue seas transparent to deny submarines a hideout down there any longer, would make me worry more than this vague article. Es pecially the Russian thing is a concern, since it seems to be quite advanced in its development already. Above radar, an unpredictable flight path, high speed - not good to sit at the receiving end of its journey. The Russians were right when putting their money on efforts to defeat an enemy Star Wars defence system instead of building their own counterpart. Its easier to defeat such defences than to build them - and what there is, works not really assuringly well and reliable at all.



Carriers still are more vulnerable than subs, and in a war against an equal enemy on same eye level imo probably are already obsolete. Technical progress moves on, sooner or later submarines as we know them today will be a dinosaurs of the past, too. The future most likely are tiny, small autonomous underwater drones. Flying air drones. And rolling and walking land drones. Irregular war operation doctrines and tactics.



Drones for president!