“Not sure what Russia has to do with this, but if China (or Russia) were trying to take Hawaii, then I’d be interested in how many carriers they had.”
The chicoms have one carrier, that was the incomplete sister ship to the Russian scrapheap Kuznetsov.
“I’d say having as many carriers as possible would be a SMART strategy and SCRAPPING carriers to ‘save money’ is simply STUPID”
The USS Enterprise is an obsolete 55+ year old ship that has already been replaced by CVN-78 Gerald R Ford.
“The chicoms have one carrier, that was the incomplete sister ship to the Russian scrapheap Kuznetsov.”
I’ll ask again, how many carriers does China need to attack Taiwan?
“The USS Enterprise is an obsolete 55+ year old ship that has already been replaced by CVN-78 Gerald R Ford.”
We weren’t trying to start major wars around the world when we sized our fleet of carriers. Now we need whatever hardware we can get our hands on. After all, how long does it take to build a new carrier?