@cadencev2: The only reason why the Kaiju were able to so easily take down Crimson Typhoon, Cherno Alpha, and Striker Eureka is because they knew about all about them due to Newt's Drift with the Kaiju Hivemind. He essentially told them everything they would need to know to take those 3 down. They weren't expecting Gipsy Danger to come in much less with that Chain Sword. Given advanced knowledge and prep, the Kaiju had a supreme advantage in that fight. This was all pretty much explained in Newt's conversation with Hannibal.
The Gipsy and Typhoon's Plasma Cannons and the Striker's AKM Launchers are finishers because they only have essentially one shot and they are out. Kaiju eat 108mm for breakfast, all our standard military munitions take too long to do any real damage. It took the combined might of the US Military 6 days to take down a single Category 1 Kaiju. A single Category 5 Kaiju tanked a nuke and you think a 108mm is going to do crap? Keep in mind that unless the attack cauterizes the wound it will release the Kaiju Blue, which in a populated area will kill a bunch of people due to the toxicity. They engage in melee first to ensure as many people are evacuated as possible so that they can then finish it.
Now, I have significant issues with the entirety of the Jaeger/Wall strategy but the strategies employed by the Jaegers helped ensure the least amount of people died which was their goal.
The rest of your gripes are subjective but those two were explained in the movie.
As to my gripes, why did they only deploy Jaegers to combat the Kaiju? After some time I would have started employing specialized ships that act as support platforms. They would provide spotting and suppressive fire if the Jaeger needed it. Why not employ orbital weapons? Most glaringly, why did they not simply camp the Breach? Sure, use the Jaegers to rein in the Kaiju but if they built a floating platform above the Breach and then when you detect Kaiju coming through drop a nuclear depth charge on them. They get killed before they can even do anything or learn anything and as a bonus, you find out very quickly that the Kaiju can travel through the Breach. So, you take all the Kaiju Corpses you have and integrate components of them into a new set of Jaegers. You then drop 10-20 Jaegers into the Breach with Special Forces Units and you take their lab by force or destroy it with a contingency nuke. Either way, the Kaiju are no threat to the populace of Earth and we kick their alien asses badly enough that they don't dare darken our door.
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