[monkey]

On a highly technical note: it's pretty hard to destroy an aircraft carrier.

[squidly]

On a highly technical note: it's pretty hard to destroy an aircraft carrier.

Yeah, to do it with one shot practically takes a nuke. And I don't think anybody would get more than one shot, if that many.

[narses]

"On a highly technical note: it's pretty hard to destroy an aircraft carrier."

It was also pretty hard to destroy the World Trade Center.

[victoryatallcosts]

On a highly technical note: it's pretty hard to destroy an aircraft carrier. I seem to recall reading somewhere that a Nimitz-class Carrier only has liferafts for half the crew, since the Navy assumes that anything severe enough to sink one of those bastards will have killed the remainder. This threat makes no sense directed at the Kitty Hawk. I don't see anything they could use against a CVBG at sea. In port, however, could be something else altogether. I remember thinking, at the time of 9-11, that if I'd been directing things I would have sent some planes at Norfolk. After all, believe me, Democrats (and our so-called "allies") would have been much less upset if it had been three thousand sailors killed that day.

[rocdad]

This is really a dangerous and scary thought and near genius of the terrorist warped mindset Seem’s to me that it would be quite easy for a lowly ensign in the armory to set off a 250 or 500 pounder in the racks. The chain reaction would be unstoppable and would even affect the nukes onboard (My guess is Probably around 25 devices plus reactors)
Which should not detonate but would in effect create a huge dirty bomb also if she were in port (Japan) the damage would be significant to the surrounding civilian population and her task force. I have not been able to determine her location from my web searches today but she could be in the Indian ocean, Persian gulf, Japanese waters or even visiting Korea Can you imagine the political consequences if she was to detonate in a foreign port? Especially a Japanese port? With the Japanese defense forces recently deployed in Iraq it would seem to be a politically advantageous target. And the greatest advantage would be breaking the coalition up further ie: Spain. Loose lips sink ships. To bad this cat is even out of the bag .