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To: QT3.14

High altitude loitering drones will render aircraft carriers useless.


10 posted on 05/31/2015 7:32:18 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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To: Mike Darancette

The generals always figure out how to win the last war...


11 posted on 05/31/2015 7:34:08 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Mike Darancette

High altitude loitering drones will render aircraft carriers useless

It’s like someone announcing they are building the largest library in the world.


44 posted on 05/31/2015 10:50:56 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Mike Darancette
High altitude loitering drones will render aircraft carriers useless.

I am going to guess that satellites and submarines have already done this.

Carriers are just so big that I don't think it is possible for any nation with routine access to space to "lose track" of a carrier, much less a carrier group.

Read up on the Falkland Islands war. This was 32 years ago, but Argentina was unwilling to lose any more ships after the first major sinking and kept them all in port. Even then, if a major power knew where your ships were, they were toast.

Carriers are useful to project power against smaller nations, but not major powers.

45 posted on 05/31/2015 11:21:43 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Mike Darancette

High altitude loitering drones will render aircraft carriers useless = target practice


50 posted on 06/01/2015 5:52:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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