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To: DesertRhino
All this talk about how carriers are easy to sink is amateur hour. It’s like saying a Marine is vulnerable to machine gun fire, so Marines are obsolete.

No it's not. Because a Marine can be replaced. The cost of replacing a carrier, its air wings and 5000 personnel is kinda prohibitive - they take over a decade to design and build. If the Navy starts to fear it could lose a carrier, it'll move them away from the field of battle making them worthless as force projection.

38 posted on 08/06/2016 8:30:59 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

You are not asking the right questions. The question isn’t how to replace a sunk carrier. Carriers are almost impossible to sink. What you should be asking is how long to get the damaged carrier to dry dock and is there the shipyard capacity and trained shipwrights to effect fast repairs. This is how real naval tacticians think and not armchair admirals.


86 posted on 08/06/2016 5:50:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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