[Pecos]

Hate to break into your dream world, but no U.S. admiral of ANY era would have put a carrier into the Black Sea. Too easy to find and sink. Carriers operate best a few hundred miles from the opponents airfields so they have room to maneuver and keep the destroyer screen spread out across the threat axis. The only reason we put carriers into the Persian Gulf is because neither the Iraqis or the Taliban were/are an air threat.

The SU-24 was a reminder, not a real threat. The only real threat to the destroyer was the other Russian airplane further overhead.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I don’t have a dream world. I didn’t say I thought they would put a carrier in the Black Sea. There is no room to manuever in the Black Sea for a carrier.

Carriers usually maintain a 200 mile perimeter so the Russian jet would never have gotten anywhere near it. He would have been intercepted by Hornets about 200 miles out.

Plus they have whats called picket ships all around a carrier who also could have taken care of it.