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To: MeganC

Russians haven’t had good results with aircraft carriers IIRC. The few they’ve built are either floating rattletraps or wind up getting scrapped before they are even launched.

They’ve done much better with “unsinkable aircraft carriers” such as Cuba.

And aren’t behemoth carriers nothing more than bigger targets these days? Maybe the “Jeep carriers” of World War Two should be brought back. More ships, smaller targets, but carrying swarms of aircraft.


21 posted on 06/03/2015 10:35:29 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970

Joe Stalin had some great plans and models of Battleships—that were never built. Smaller Drone carriers would be a good idea, Once we get the rail guns perfected—Monitors might make a comeback—or even fast battleships. The Russians toyed with half-airplane/half ships a while back—maybe that’s what is needed. We need to think 21st Century, not WW II.


31 posted on 06/03/2015 12:34:15 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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