[rightinthemiddle]

The humanitarian efforts will require escorts. I wonder if a U.S. carrier group has ever been in the Black Sea without Russian cooperation?

[A.Hun]

Good question D....I know we have two additional carrier groups headed that way already, they just finished war games in the Atlantic with the Brits and French.

This could get really tense.

[Cheburashka]

The humanitarian efforts will require escorts. I wonder if a U.S. carrier group has ever been in the Black Sea without Russian cooperation?

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American aircraft carriers are prohibited from passing through the Turkish Straights by the Montreux Convention.

To be blunt, even if they could, I doubt the Navy would want to put an aircraft carrier in the Black Sea. The Black Sea is far too small, and a carrier's life expectancy in the event of war would be at best a few hours.

[Mariner]

"I wonder if a U.S. carrier group has ever been in the Black Sea without Russian cooperation"?

The has never been a Carrier battle group in the Black Sea, and we better not start now.