[piasa]

That’s a big man.

[nickcarraway]

Not sure why it came out that large. But yes, Billy Mitchell was a big man.

[SaveFerris]

lol

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Of course, the reason that no one had yet sunk a battleship from the air — in combat — was that no one had yet tried.

News travels slowly. The British had done it a year early in November of 1940. The Japanese took notice, the American Navy, not so much.

[bmwcyle]

Three words - Submarines and Targets

[Travis McGee]

This rings a bell.

A troubling sign of things to come is a Russian firm that is reportedly selling a “Club-K” cruise missile concealable in shipping containers deployable on trucks, rail cars or merchant ships.

[buffaloguy]

We have increased the cost of going to war against us by huge amounts.

As of this date no country leader has been crazy enough to attack an aircraft carrier group.

The advance of technology will multiply the offensive power of an ac group, not decrease it. Potentially the multiplication factor is at least a magnitude or two.

One does not attack an aircraft carrier. One attacks an aircraft carrier group. Different ball game, major league level.