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You'll Never Guess Who's Building an Aircraft Carrier Now (Seriously... Try)
Motley Fool ^ | May 31, 2015 | Rich Smith

Posted on 05/31/2015 7:21:52 PM PDT by QT3.14

All of a sudden, aircraft carriers are back in fashion.

Over in Russia, they're drawing up plans to build the world's biggest aircraft carrier, a 100,000-ton beast that can carry 100 combat aircraft. China's building one, two, or maybe even four aircraft carriers. And here in the United States, we're busy building our second ­Ford-class supercarrier.

Around the world and across the seas, aircraft carriers are popping up in the unlikeliest of places -- in Korea, in Thailand, in India, Japan, and maybe soon in Singapore, as well. But you'll never guess the latest country to announce plans to acquire one.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aircraftcarrier; china; india; japan; korea; navy; russia; singapore; thailand; turkey; worstexcerptever
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To: ClearCase_guy

Now that you point it out, it certainly is odd.. Just what might the problem be? I can’t put much if pngrper on it.


41 posted on 05/31/2015 9:29:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Switzerland, Bolivia, and Paraguay would surprise me.


42 posted on 05/31/2015 9:46:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: MasterGunner01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3irhyNzKXA


43 posted on 05/31/2015 9:54:01 PM PDT by cynwoody
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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: CurlyDave

Do read up on the Malvinas War. Two Brit nuclear boats managed to lose the Argi carrier, and despite satellite assist couldn’t reacquire it.


46 posted on 05/31/2015 11:40:01 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Sub-editors: totes unnecessary.)
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To: QT3.14

The LHD that Turkey is getting is not an aircraft carrier. Australia has 2 of this class and the only fixed wing fighter you could operate off it are Harriers and a dozen of them at best.

As the USN have discovered, operating F35B’s requires significant work done on the ship’s flight deck to cope with the giant blowtorch the JSF becomes in VTOL operations.

The LHDs are excellent amphibious ships but to call them aircraft carriers is just stupid.


47 posted on 05/31/2015 11:56:37 PM PDT by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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To: QT3.14

I was going to guess Uzbekistan (1 of 2 double landlocked countries) but even China is still a decade away from having a fully functioning carrier group. They don’t even have planes capable of landing/taking off on one.


48 posted on 05/31/2015 11:58:12 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: QT3.14

you’ll never guess

Donald Trump?


49 posted on 06/01/2015 5:40:59 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey (The larger the government, the smaller the people)
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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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To: CurlyDave

Yet the Brits would have lost the Falkland campaign without fleet fix wing aviation. Carriers will be obsolete when having air superiority over huge swaths of ocean becomes obsolete.


51 posted on 06/01/2015 6:04:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: QT3.14

glorious nation of Kazakhstan?


52 posted on 06/01/2015 6:10:32 AM PDT by Oratam
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