RT SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771)Bet on it being much longer than that."The U.S. Navy faces a potential “aircraft carrier crunch” as its most advanced warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), sits at Souda Bay undergoing damage assessment. The transition from active combat in the Red Sea to a shipyard in Crete marks a critical pause in Operation Epic Fury, highlighting the physical and industrial limits of 21st-century naval power." ...

RT Marko Jukic (@mmjukic)Here is a chart of the world's biggest navies by tonnage. As you can see, the U.S. Navy is an absolute beast that mogs the rest of the world combined. If it was possible to reopen the Strait of Hormuz using a modern navy, the U.S. could and would have done it already alone. https://t.co/4OW8mOnhiy ...

China is building new submarines that will put more of the U.S. mainland within range—and do so from waters closer to its own coastline https://t.co/o3JO4Zmib9 ...

The US and South Korea are in private negotiations to jointly build nuclear-powered submarines for both navies, a potential major shift in their alliance that would go beyond the announcement made by the countries’ presidents two weeks ago https://t.co/0yNBtHObpz ...

China has put its largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier into active service, boosting Beijing’s quest to create a formidable oceangoing navy https://t.co/0QcwOzWkj4 ...

China’s largest and most advanced warship has officially entered its military fleet, boosting Beijing’s ability to project naval power amid rising US concern about its assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific https://t.co/MS8JGcTyNs ...