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Two Supercarriers Meet at Sea — One’s Missing Airplanes
War is Boring ^ | August 8, 2017 | David Axe

Posted on 08/11/2017 4:42:36 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
The one missing aircraft, was it the Rachael?

Call me Ishmael ...

41 posted on 08/11/2017 8:21:24 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: Lower Deck

If your operating in the North Sea during winter it makes a lot of sense to keep all your aircraft below deck.


42 posted on 08/11/2017 9:23:36 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

An aircraft carrier without aircraft simply cannot be “super”


43 posted on 08/11/2017 10:12:23 AM PDT by wny
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To: sukhoi-30mki
we don't need no stinking airplanes
44 posted on 08/11/2017 3:37:28 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Seruzawa

Aside from the carriers the US Navy’s largest combat vessels are destroyers.


45 posted on 08/11/2017 7:29:01 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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To: rlmorel

I remember it sinking.


46 posted on 08/11/2017 8:57:51 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Oztrich Boy

No guided missile cruisers any more, eh.


47 posted on 08/11/2017 9:58:10 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Next to the lash?


48 posted on 08/11/2017 10:15:47 PM PDT by Lee Enfield (Liberals write our memes for us.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

One is for the Captain and the other is for those that displease the captain.
“Off to the tower!”


49 posted on 08/11/2017 10:31:55 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: BlueLancer

See Titanic on carrier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3555867/posts


50 posted on 08/11/2017 10:44:42 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Lee Enfield
Next to the lash?

Aye, me shiverin' matey!

51 posted on 08/12/2017 12:50:35 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Two Towers? Maybe they should rename it the HMS Tolkien.


52 posted on 08/12/2017 1:09:59 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Just behind the buggery.

I thought of suggesting a correction: "buttery", but somehow that does not sound like an improvement....

53 posted on 08/12/2017 12:25:48 PM PDT by thulldud
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