The US Navy will convert surplus oil rigs in the western Pacific into mobile military bases as part of the US military buildup aimed at China, The Defense Post reported on Tuesday.
The naval engineering firm Gibbs & Cox developed the concept, known as the Mobile Defense/Depot Platform (MODEP), and presented it earlier this month at the Sea Air Space Expo. The idea is to convert oil rigs into mobile missile defense and resupply bases.
“Our target here is to find a solution to help the challenging problem of having capacity issues in the Western Pacific. For not enough cells, not enough missiles, not enough of being able to keep those ships in the forward station,” Dave Zook, an architect at Gibbs & Cox, told Naval News.
Gibbs & Cox claims that the floating bases would be able to hold 512 vertical launch system cells or 100 large missile launchers, which is five times the capacity of a US Navy destroyer. The idea is to counter China’s ballistic missiles that could take out US warships and bases in the region in the event of an open war.
US military officials have been explicit about the fact that they’re preparing for a direct war with China in the region despite the obvious risk of the conflict quickly turning nuclear. The US has been expanding its military footprint in the Philippines and in Pacific island nations to give China more targets that it will have to hit.
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the former head of US Pacific Air Forces who is now the commander of Air Combat Command, made this clear in comments to Nikkei Asia last year.
“Obviously, we would like to disperse in as many places as we can to make the targeting problem for the Chinese as difficult as possible,” Wilsbach said. “A lot of those runways where we would operate from are in the Pacific Island nations.”
Another MIC boondoggle. These morons don’t realize that US missiles can’t shoot down hypersonic missiles, so these oil platforms will be destroyed in five minutes, if not by Chinese hypersonic missiles, then by Russian hypersonic missiles.
Operation “dumb as fuck provocation”.
That would be (DAFP).
Lol
Acronyms make it look so official like.
Plans based on upper class arrogance seem stupid because they are.
The US and Europe were told about unstoppable weapons eight or ten years ago and they still cut back on public education, health and transportation.
Keep poking the bear and the Panda and soon they will claw you to death.
“The US has been expanding its military footprint in the Philippines and in Pacific island nations to give China more targets that it will have to hit.” I wonder if our people in the military are reading these words? If they decide to remain in the military, they’d better start practicing swimming long distances in the Pacific.
Idiot.
You’re the idiot.
Xi thinks he can politically and financially negotiate himself out of war? That is the best example of “Denial” I’ve ever heard. Denial is not a river in Egypt, Xi!
Come on…!!!!! The last thing the deep state wants is war with Russia & China. The U.S would be destroyed and if every living thing was dying from radiation it would not be good for what the capitalists hold dear, profits & property values any where in the U.S. After snookering us into the war on terror that made us fall a decade behind in military trchnology chasing nomads, now the Neocons & Israel are trying to bluff our way out of losing our already lost hegemony by turning one of the two vast Eastern Powers against the other. It’s not possible but suicide for them. Those that got us in this terrible fix seem to think they can outsmart & or bribe their & unhappily OUR way out this fix by some magic slight of hand, AI epiphany, or perhaps divine intervention. Unfortunately the whole world is stuck on this madcap bus toward the abyss.
IKR? You think they could figure it out but they don’t. They keep escalating. That’s why I am convinced they are stupid and evil.
As with Russia, Washington will use proxies, Phillipines, Koreans, Japs.
“US To Convert Pacific Oil Rigs Into Military Bases as Part of Anti-China Buildup” Did Nuland come up with this idea after her success in Ukraine? The jokes keep writing themselves, Folks!
You bringing Nuland into this?
Bruh, you are the joke.
Better try China or Russia. They are the ones doing that and you dont have a problem with those two,
you fcking hypocrite.
What are you brain dead? The US views the entire planet as it’s backyard. It was the US pivot to Asia to contain China back in 2010 after the 2008 Financial disaster, which led to BRIC formation of 2009 to figure out a strategy to start de-dollarizing the world economy. That’s why the US wants wars with Russia, China, and Iran, to preserve US global hegemony of the entire planet. That’s it in a nutshell. The US is the most dangerous country on the planet and it seeks world domination since the end of WW2. They are the new NAZIS. FACTS. FACTS. FACTS.
Very nice targets for China, Russia and north Korea that can be easily destroyed with a single bomb/missile…!
You are right.
Just like Russia in Krynky. Right?
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Diplomacy , US style.
That is a stupid idea. Much cheaper to add 100s of missile bays onto a container carrier ship or an oil tanker.
Russia tried that in the black Sea near Odessa.
It felt miserably as always.
A handful of Ukrainian Special Operators ruined their plans.
I did not say that is was a good idea, only a better idea than arming oil rigs. In any case, as shown recently over in air over Israel and Iran, quality is better than quantity.
That is Fcd up. Imagine if China or Russia did that.
But they never would because they dont engage in that kind of practice. China and Russia are great examples.
What’s next, US invades and annexes land from a neighboring country while accusing it of being neo nazi.
Let’s call US out. That’s BS.
This idea was not cooked up by whoever the article said it was by. Hideo Kojima was the one to conceptualize oil rig FOBs the Metal Gear Series.
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