[C19fan]

There was a TV show during the 90s called "seaQuest DSV", starring Roy Scheider, Michael Ironside and Stephanie Beacham (yummy), about a sophisticated submarine that also a mother ship for drone submarines. Looks like that vision of the future is going to become a reality.

[allendale]

Interesting. The Navy will eventually come to the grim conclusion that advanced drone technology has made their big surface ships especially the carriers vulnerable, indefensible and obsolete.

[KoRn]

/mark

[McGruff]

Osama announced just the other day that he's going to make our military “leaner”. Not much meat left on the bone as it is.

Your comment about carriers being a first casualty of a major war was correct based upon a special I watched on TV years back. That stuck in my mind. Hope we're wrong.

[arthurus]

Perhaps we are wittingly or unwittingly following the Reagan strategy against Russia, inducing the Russians to spend more than the economy can afford on trying to outmatch the American military.