Something I learned from trying to learn how military equipment works is that "fifty-year old" and the likes aren't necessarily synonymous with "obsolete".

There's a lot of stuff in the US military that's somewhat aged. The aircraft carrier Nimitz is still in service and was commissioned 50 years ago. The B-52 has been in service for longer than that (in fairness the design is that old; the actual airplanes, presumably not). The A10 Warthog was first released in 1977 and is still in use. The AR-15, embodied in the M16 and M4 goes back to the 1960s and the Browning M2 goes back to 1933.

China is building incredible 200x times more ships annually compared to the US. You can imagine what the military implications are.

Along with various medium to large cargo planes and the world's supply of flagged cargo carriers. I'm not sure there's that many "troops and other things" that require more transport, maybe heavy ammunition. Most of the military power sails or flies places.

Why do we need to transport our military overseas, anyway? We should close all our overseas bases and save the money.

I don't watch YouTube but here a mariners take.

I notice that there is a very large Car Carrier in Norfolk Drydock getting painted white to grey.

Looks like they are converting commercial vessels to military use.

I can't imagine how they handle in big winds. A giant sail like surface.

Flickertail State Crane Ship was recently out doing testing. It is old but capable.

Gaza Pier help was a bust. Those piers are not meant to be installed long term. We looked like clowns. Not Omaha Beach.

Thanks Jones Act