Mombasa GWD= 4000km
Dijbouti GWD= 2500 km.
Surveillance needs satellites. And not small ones like the ones we have put up with China, but big ones like the Russian/Soviet RORSAT, which requires big *** SLV's (on the scale of a Delta III or even a Falcon 9).
Interdiction requires carriers, its...
The grapvine (I have no information besides) is that the SSN was halted due to the reactor and other issue and replaced with what became the Hangor class. While the SSBN-Boomer work continued.
I do like what one person who I talked to said.
The first information you will have of the existence of...
PLATFORMS
1) Carrier vessel. Ideally a small to midsized carrier, able to accommodate 20 or so jets to provide air defence to the fleet.....like the Italians of WW2 we are living in a fools paradise if we think that we don't need carriers, that land-based airpower is sufficient and they were...
So, you are saying that you spent 20 years in Afghanistan when it was the definition of a "strategic backwater" but upped and left as Great Power rivalries began afresh, and it neighbours both of them. :hitwall: