To: faithhopecharity
To actually sink a ship requires damage below the waterline and/or blowing up a magazine. Missiles can hit a magazine but it would be a lucky shot. A missile cannot cause damage below the waterline.
Freepers throw words around like sink a carrier without thinking.
45 posted on
03/26/2017 7:59:52 PM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Used. Thanks for the info. Some of us just admire the navy without ever having learned much about it.
47 posted on
03/26/2017 8:06:13 PM PDT by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: central_va
A missile cannot cause damage below the waterline.
= = =
Well, yes it can.
Not too tricky, but you plan for it intentionally.
60 posted on
03/26/2017 9:09:04 PM PDT by
Scrambler Bob
(Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
To: central_va
If the Russians were serious about sinking a carrier, then they would use a nuclear warhead, not conventional ... and that would take out a carrier.
In fact, any skipper, worth the name, would assume that in such a situation that any missiles coming against his ship would be nuclear and act accordingly.
77 posted on
03/27/2017 4:57:31 AM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: central_va
It would be virtually impossible to guide something going that fast. Even a slight change in direction would make it unstable
86 posted on
03/27/2017 7:18:47 AM PDT by
AppyPappy
(Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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