If the US Navy had to blockade a coastal nation, what weapons and tactics would they use to do it?
>>64644585My dick
A frigate, and blockade tactics.
>>64644585Lots of Arleigh Burkes and a couple of Nimitzes and maybe a Ford. And there's absolutely nothing said coastal nation could do to break the blockade. They'd rot away, trapped within their own borders.
>>64644585Submarines, Satellite imagery, LCS pickets in closer, and then the ABs next layer out and CVN groups at the farthest out.
>>64644585I would imagine all these assets.
>>64644585>Do we have air superiority?>No? Why not?>Yes, Does the enemy have surface combatants>Yes, why?>Not anymore, Does the enemy have anti-ship missiles?>Yes, but the bombers are working on it>No, Great!>If the US Navy had to blockade a coastal nation, what weapons and tactics would they use to do it?>Is it China? F>Is it Venezuela?>How much do you want to spend?>Yes? Fantastic! Fast attack subs, a few surface ships for show. and maybe an AWACS for good measure.
>>64644635>surface ships for showIt's hard to perform boarding actions or launch air patrols from a sub.
>>64644596>frigateFrig.
>>64644642>show them what we think of blockade runners
>>64644642Indeed, which is why I think ships like the Zumwalt are a good compromise of still being stealthy and building a ship with the constraints of a modern battlefield in mind while being capable of doing surface stuff.
>>64644585It's about denial more than presence. Obviously, you want to secure choke points but the real way of doing it is lawfare. Declare exclusion zones, deny port access, subject ships to arbitrary inspections, put pressure on their insurance, sanction the ports and companies that try to reach your enemy.You need intense monitoring of traffic including satellites, cyber integration and local sensor systems. Attack subs are your enforcers, but almost nothing in the littoral. All your "big guns" remain parked in the ocean
>>64644585Put tariffs on every country that trades with them.
>>64644642>boarding actions or launch air patrolsI'm not sure that you understand how blockades work anon.
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>>64645226>ballistic cope missiles>not very impressive PLAN-100 social credit
>>64644585was this posted with full knowledge of the ongoing blockade of Venezuela or without?We put a full carrier group down there and are currently blockading the nation in all but name.
>>64644585>A thirdiestanA chopper carrier + destroyer screen and whatever assets are needed to neutralize enemy anti-shipping assets. Probably overkill desu.>>64645226>PRC Station a carrier battle group out near the Malacca straight and you wait for the Chinks to come to you. They'll be running out of oil sooner or later.Keep your surface fleet far away from mainland drone and missile spam.
>>64645226>Surface pickets at 3200 km with subs hunting the PLAN fleet>Move in as China progressively depletes their stockpiles of IRBMs and MRBMs >China's productivity is steadily cut off by the blockade while the US can leverage the rest of the world's productivity to resupply their interceptors>Meanwhile, stealth bomber strikes on critical Chinese infrastructureHow long do you think "muh 200x shipbuilding capacity" will last when China's shipyards are a war zone and the US transitions to a war economy?
>>64646330>US transitions to a war economyHow are we supposed to do that while blocking one of our largest trade partners? The winner of the Sino-American war will be whoever's economy collapses second.
>>64646261>all but namehttps://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-announces-total-complete-blockade-sanctioned-venezuelan-oil/story?id=128470561
>>64646376The US will have the entire world to trade with, China will maybe have Russia and the norks if they're lucky.
>>64646392That's not how the world economy works. Cutting off the rest of the world from trading with China will be met with massive backlash against the US (not to mention global economic collapse far worse than the pandemic) . Despite the large scale sanctions the US/EU imposed in Russia, Russia still still "allowed" to conduct trade because fully cutting Russia (a tiny economy compared to China) would cause too much backlash
>>64646330>US transitions to a war economy?That's never going to happen
>>64644585boats
>>64646655>Cutting off the rest of the world from trading with China will be met with massive backlash against the USOnly if the US are the aggressors, which is why China hasn't invaded Taiwan.
>>64644642Boarding?
>>64646376Wouldn't you like to know? Tell me, how is the $1T trade surplus going for China?
>>64646305An ESB would be overkill.
>>64646655China's own plans say they will use civilian ships for an invasion. They have shown videos of how they would. Which means anything flying their flag becomes a fair target in a war. A war which only starts because they decide to. The status quo benefits both sides, so the question is will Trump's stupid words/Xi's ambitions convince China that they can win (quickly)? It's not about economies or statesmanship. It's down to which leader gets the rush of shit to the brain and thinks "I'm going to fire the first shot."
>>64646765>will Trump's stupid words/Xi's ambitions convince China that they can win (quickly)Impossible for China to do a fait accompli with Sanae Takaichi in the picture. God bless the Japs.
>>64646699not fixing the collapsing economy?
>>64644585Why didnt USN blockade Houthis?
>>64644585I knownyou are Venezuelan CIA looking for someone to do YOUR JOB FOR YOU. Not gonna honey pot me, Juan Delgado. Do your own homework!
>>64644617Wow, what a coincidence those assets are deployed there, at this time, together, if you know what I mean, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, right?
