MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
From Avweb:
Communist China has been effectively employing a vast fleet of low-tech, lightly armed government vessels and dual-use civilian craft and naval militias to expand and dominate large swaths of the Western Pacific.
Until now, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard could only respond to this 'Gray Zone' armada with small deck guns, scarce heavy torpedoes, or expensive anti-ship missiles and line-of-sight laser-guided bombs.
That equation has now changed as the Pentagon has shown off its latest low-tech 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) – appropriately named 'QUICKSINK,' in an impressive live-fire demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico.
It can be dropped on ships from 20 miles away. Note that it hits the side of the ship and "torpedoes" it. Just like Billy Mitchell.
Communist China has been effectively employing a vast fleet of low-tech, lightly armed government vessels and dual-use civilian craft and naval militias to expand and dominate large swaths of the Western Pacific.
Until now, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard could only respond to this 'Gray Zone' armada with small deck guns, scarce heavy torpedoes, or expensive anti-ship missiles and line-of-sight laser-guided bombs.
That equation has now changed as the Pentagon has shown off its latest low-tech 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) – appropriately named 'QUICKSINK,' in an impressive live-fire demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico.
It can be dropped on ships from 20 miles away. Note that it hits the side of the ship and "torpedoes" it. Just like Billy Mitchell.