Task Force Jaguar. Apache.

The journalist lost focus.  It had been a nice series with the focus on what each airplane brought to the fight but when she got to the Apache she focused on the maintenance section.

24th MEU. 120mm Mortar Live Fire.

Udairi Range Live Fire Tank Training

Carrier Navy. The undetected threat. Now enter the J-20's.

The story continues.  And remember this is just fiction.  It occurs at a future time (say 5 to 20 years from now) with the idea that US defense spending will at best remain static, at worse decline.

So with that cleared up. 

Now enter the J-20's...or I should say the J-20's will be leading the fight against our Carrier Battle Group in this scenario.

A two ship formation of J-20's flew ahead of the main force of SU-27 fighters to locate and provide targeting information.  The Chinese are nothing but thorough. The J-20's on the surveillance mission are really redundant.  They have purposefully placed their space station in orbit to remain over the Pacific ocean.  Chinese Astronauts wear two hats.  Scientist and Military Intel Specialist.  They have been keeping tabs  on the US carrier since it left Pearl Harbor.  Additionally they have a constellation of spy sats that are equipped with one mission in mind.  Maritime surveillance.

The J-20's are the vanguard of a group of 40 others that are headed to the CBG.

The mission.

Destroy the Escorts.

The good news for the Chinese and the bad news for our guys is this.  The Chinese have been eating our lunch for years.  Not only do they have a network of spies inside both our defense industry and government  but they have also penetrated our computer systems.

Because of this the Chinese have improved the coatings on the J-20.  When we developed stealth pods to carry missiles externally on the F-35 and F-22, the Chinese simply helped themselves to the information that we labored to produce.

The J-20 fly high and fast.  They've been vectored by sats and the space station.  Once they've located the prey they relay that information to the follow on strikers.

The strike J-20's benefiting from the improvements follow the same flight path.  The Burke's pick up intermittent reflections and fighters are scrambled just in case. 

Now that the CBG has been located the Recon J-20's pull back.  Its up to the strikers now.  They're coming head on to the Burke's providing cover and since the J-20's frontal cross section is where this airplane is stealthiest they never pick them up.

The J-20's launch at distance...mere minutes before the other parts of the strike package let off.

The Burke's are good...but the Chinese only have to be lucky.

This was a heavy escort group.  It had 10 Burke's assigned to the CBG.

After the J-20's are finished only 5 remain.  The opening salvo of this mythical conflict cost the US 1500 sailors dead, 900 wounded and recovered and 400 missing.

This is the beginning of a very bad day for our carrier.

LEMV First Flight

Breaking! Aerial release of weapons from F-35!

From the Fraternal Order of United States Marines.

This is much more like it!  Wish more Marine Generals talked this way!

C-130XJ Super Hercules & SC-130J “Sea Herc”

Artist’s rendition of the newly “expandable” C-130XJ aircraft, which takes advantage of the exceptional operational capabilities of the baseline C-130J Super Hercules. The aircraft is offered at a reduced price based on a combination of uninstalled line replaceable units and the configuration return to the legacy C-130 cargo handling system.

Artist’s rendition of the latest variant of the C-130J, the Sea Herc. The SC-130J will redefine maritime reconnaissance and patrol.