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To: KoRn

First, there is no proof that this system even works. Second, even several direct hits from weapons of this size will not sink a carrier. Third, our carrier task groups each include Aegis cruisers and destroyers that are capable of shooting down incoming ballistic missile. This is an additional threat that must be taken into account, to be sure, but it is *not* a ‘carrier killer’.


8 posted on 01/01/2011 12:56:04 PM PST by Vigilant1 (The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.)
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To: Vigilant1
Similar arguments were made by the battleship navy crowd about naval aviation circa 1940.

History settled the debate. Let's not get caught exposed again.

Wiki: "HMS Prince of Wales (pennant number 53) was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England. The Prince of Wales had a brief but active career, helping to stop the Bismarck and carrying Winston Churchill to the Newfoundland Conference; however, her sinking by Japanese land-based bombers in the Far East in 1941 is one of the events that led to the end of the battleship being considered the predominant class in naval warfare."

Hubris can kill.

21 posted on 01/01/2011 1:28:45 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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