Wrong Term ...

 ... "shelved" is not the applicable term. More like removed into the deep recesses of archives of naval curiosities, never to be shown to public again in order to avoid embarrassment. I always stress--it is sometimes even painful for me seeing mighty US Navy, with its glorious heroic history, becoming a butt of jokes around the world, and not only because of the obsolete carrier-centric concept, but this:

The US Navy’s Trump-class battleship will be 'quietly shelved'. Summary and Key Points: The proposed Trump-class “guided-missile battleship” (BBG(X)) is pitched as a revival of American sea power, but the concept clashes with how modern naval war is actually fought. The platform is missile-centric—more like a bloated destroyer than a true battleship—while remaining highly vulnerable to submarines, long-range missiles, and ISR-driven targeting. Exotic add-ons like railguns and shipborne lasers are power-hungry and still unreliable at sea, while bigger hulls simply create bigger, pricier targets. Worse, U.S. shipyards are already strained, meaning BBG(X) would likely crowd out submarines and logistics ships that matter more in a China fight.

Child-emperor loves expensive shiny toys and he doesn't care, nor can grasp modern warfare, naval or not.

This is the thing which many US generals (and Admirals) still cannot grasp--the opposite side has as good ISR as the US. ISR means targeting and firing solutions, after that--all bets are off. Salvo Model rules and real serious militaries plan and fight based on model, some of them being in the process of constant update and modifications, 24/7 literally. This is how Russian General Staff operates, its GOU--Main Operational Directorate. Same goes for Main Staff of the Russian Navy. And the author correctly states, when it comes to China and her PLAN--the US Navy has only one avenue to pursue--submarine forces which still (emphasis on "still") maintains a sizeable, generational, lead over PLAN's submarine force. In terms of surface fleet--US Navy's readiness is a huge question mark. But in the end, it is not just arithmetic of MK41 VLS, it is what is in those VLS which makes all the difference.   

Some Tactical Visuals ...

... from liberated Tsvetkovo in Zaporozhe. Courtesy of 218th Tank Regiments of Russian Army. 

That Is What Happens ...

 ... when your officer corps looks like this)) 

And most of it have been taught fairy tales in "academies" and war colleges. 

About 1,500 targets in a single day: that is the scale U.S. Army leaders say they are preparing for in a large-scale war in Europe. The projection, informed by the Russia-Ukraine war, is shaping how the service thinks about automation and speed, officials told reporters Thursday. Army commanders issued the warning as they shared reflections on Dynamic Front 26, a multinational exercise in Europe that brings together U.S. and NATO forces to rehearse the coordination of long-range fires in a high-intensity conflict. Drawing on lessons from Ukraine, the leaders described a battlefield where waves of drones, missiles and artillery could generate targets faster than a traditional headquarters can process them. The exercise focused on moving targeting data across national boundaries and between different systems. “We need to be able to intercept, defeat 600 to 1,200 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and long-range one-way attack drones every 24-hour period,” said Brig. Gen. Steven Carpenter, the commanding general of Multidomain Command Europe. Those numbers, he said, reflect the scale of attacks seen in Ukraine.

I have news for Gen. Steven Carpenter (if anyone wonders who this general is and his official bio from Pentagon):

1. For any associated with Wisbaden NATO officer is like being branded a loser, because Wisbaden group "planning" killed many hundreds of thousands of khohol and gave us all a "masterpiece" of military incompetence in 2023 "counter-offensive". He should ask his boss--General Donahue;

2. Any references to the "experience" of "Russian-Ukrainian War" by the US Army is a joke--counting beans of missiles and loitering munitions, accompanied, of course, with comments from VSU, is wrong for starters, because MRAU (Массированный Ракетно-Авиационный Удар--Massed Missile-Aviation Strike) in case NATO decides to "fight" Russia will not be "600 to 1,200 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and long-range one-way attack drones every 24-hour period"--it will be at least twice larger and it could be sustained for months;

3. Here comes the most important part: US Army has NO kinetic means of intercepting any salvo composed of three to four different types of stand off weapons, not to mention the fact that US so called Air Defense is incapable of intercepting super-sonic, let alone hyper-sonic weapons. Considering the state of the Raytheon and what it sells, the US will run out of any "defensive missiles" within first two-three weeks and will sustain at least 3,600 casualties a day ...

Reality, of course, will be even grimmer, especially if General Carpenter heard about assembly areas for division and Brigade Combat Teams formations. If he thinks that US Army formations communicate through holy spirit and ESP (you know, Shining) I have news for him--no matter EMCON, they will be detected, identified and targeting provided. Single Oreshnik, or three-four of Kinzhals, or salvo of 5-6 Iskanders ... so, make your own conclusions.  

The "transformation of the US Army" is impossible, because you cannot change cultural and military genetics--it will remain what it always was--an expeditionary force with obsolete TOE and with largely confabulated military history throughout the XX century. It doesn't mean that there are no courageous people or competent officers in the US Army. Of course there are, there are many robust professionals up to a level of division, after that ... So, let them wet dream. Or "spread targeting across borders", as one child correctly stated:

Because you do not come to the gunfight with a knife--the truth many US generals didn't learn yet, many never will. And don't start me on the officer corps education. 

Decomposition of the West ...

 ... on the display. Rutte speaks to a dog, and then to a pig. 

Some Explanation Of Head-On Battle ...

... or as Lester Grau somewhat mistakenly terms it a "meeting battle". The reason he uses this term is because in Russian it is встречный бой, which literally is meeting but semantically it is head-on.  

Why the distinction is crucial? Because any battle by definition is a "meeting battle", but in the US Field Manual FM/ATP 3-21.8 "movement to contact", as an example, is defined as: 

Movement to contact is a type of offensive operation designed to develop the situation and establish or regain contact. It ends when enemy contact is made. 

But head-on battle, is when BOTH sides, using US FM's terms, are conducting "movement to contact", of when deploying from the march columns. One of the most, if not the MOST famous head-on battles in history is, of course, the clash from march of Rotmistrov's 5th Tank Army with the II SS Panzer Corps, HEAD-ON at Prokhorovka during Kursk Battle--a cataclysmic event, which, of course, later was "properly" and promptly misrepresented by the US Army History Department official employees such as Mainstein and Hausser. 

As you all remember--those very generals and marshals who lost the war to Russians. Why did I post this here? In my today's video which should be up shortly (an hour or so), I explain SitRep from SMO's battle lines by one of the actual officers at Zaporozhe operational axis who absolutely demolishes BS from 404 (MI6-CIA) propaganda about some "offensive" and describes HEAD-ON battles (бои) around Priluki and Kosovtsevo.

Those are not real operations--it is throwing remaining cannon fodder into meatgrinder and, putting 404 flags in the outskirts of some hamlet, making a photo or video and then ... run. This is how NATO "fights"--PR primarily. So, when the video pops up--this is for those who will be watching it to the end to orient themselves in relation to what Russian officers at battle lines say. Now, down the memory lane, well into the 1920s. 

The League of Nations: Capitalists of the World, Unite! Aged as a fine wine. Today, of course, the slogan is: pedophiles, satanists and monsters of the world, unite! Don't you agree? 

That Is Why It Is Called ...

 ... VKS (Air-Space Forces) which Air Defense forces (PVO) are part of--system of systems. Armed Forces are system of systems and they fight as such. This, obviously, is unknown to "experts" from RUSI because they cannot properly assess ... well, anything. 

Russia's war in Ukraine has made its formidable air defenses an even tougher challenge for NATO, airpower analyst warns. Russia's air defenses may pose a more significant threat to NATO air forces than they would have before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a top air defense analyst warned in a recent report. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has been able to destroy numerous Russian air defense systems. Justin Bronk, an air power expert at the UK's Royal United Services Institute, warned that not only does Russia still maintain a large arsenal, but it is also still producing its most powerful systems. And its ability to use these weapons has improved through combat experience.

I have news for readers of this drivel, Royal United Services Institute doesn't have air defense experts, let alone "top" ones, as it doesn't have any military experts at all--mostly white board consumers of 404 Kool Aid about combat and who wouldn't be able to pass entrance exams, let alone graduate, Yaroslavl High Military Officer School of Air Defense or something like Air Force Academy of Mozhaisky. Moreover, NO NATO combat pilot ever operated in the environment even remotely approaching the level of threat which VKS present to any combination of self-proclaimed "best air forces". The "level" of officer corps of NATO (specifically US and UK) has been demonstrated to a devastating, to their self-proclaimed inflated egos, effects for US and UK in 2023 "counter-offensive" and in 2024 Kursk respectively. 

But then, of course, we have the situation with this "hypothetical war", in this "hypothetical war" UK ceases to exist as military-political entity one of the first and not by nukes, nope--civilian population of UK will be untouched physically, but the clowns from UK "services", together with those who guide them--they will disappear. Especially when one considers this simple fact--UK doesn't have functional air defense (forget about real anti-missile  one). But then again, how else can you explain to them what real war is. 

Yes, yes, "sleeping giant", the fact that this giant is impotent and as dumb as fuck went missing on these clowns in Munich. 

Knowledge Is Not Enough ...

 ... you have to internalize and be guided by the knowledge. Difficult, I know, but if you want to stay atop of things. Peskov politely demolishes Bloomberg's lie, yes--same media who work for pedophile satanic ruling class. 

EU is literally over, because Europe as economy is unsustainable. EU industrialists' desperate plea for survival--not gonna happen. Per US military--well, when even the cheerleaders cannot ignore the catastrophe, it tells you something.