Stupid anti A/C Carrier armchair admirals of Free Republic. Thank God nobody is listening to these lunes.
My sentiments, as well.
I actually read part of the article until I got to:
“The influential U.S. Adm. Hyman Rickover shared this view.”
Thank you Hyman, for making sure we began the Viet Nam war with nothing but obsolete junk. I really can’t wait to hear your next idea (sarcasm OFF).
From the article:
Rickover’s response? “Forty-eight hours,” he said.Soviet Adm. Sergei Gorchakov reportedly held the view that the U.S. had made a strategic miscalculation by relying on large and increasingly vulnerable aircraft carriers. The influential U.S. Adm. Hyman Rickover shared this view. In a 1982 congressional hearing, legislators asked him how long American carriers would survive in an actual war.
Rickover was no armchair Admiral. He was a real one. And he said this back in '82. Anti-carrier weaponry has improved since then. Our defenses? Not so much. It's no secret that Chinese subs have surfaced within torpedo range of carriers and that Russian subs have been able to match the speeds of our carriers. Recent war game exercises haven't been kind to carriers.
Read the whole article. The author is right on the money --as far as this carrier sailor sees it.
Don't field an asset you can't afford to lose. The loss of even one of our carriers would be such a staggering blow to the Navy that they'd never let the rest of them leave port.
Sure a battleship could sink our carriers but they’d never get close enough to get them in range. Stupid article.
The correct term is "loons."