Posted on 07/20/2015 10:54:12 AM PDT by george76
This guy has a spare in case they’re interested:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cargo-container-yields-2m-surprise-1.821211?ref=rss
Look at what the Brits accomplished in the Falklands with the HMS Invincible operating thousands of miles from home, close to enemy territory. After several tries at sinking her, the Argie AF ceased operations in the Falklands. They were outclassed by RAF pilots. It seems to me that if there are multiple smaller aircraft carriers operating in a battle (along with required picket ships in a battle group), there is a greater chance of success, because basically, not all your eggs are in one basket. Take, for example, the America-class amphibious assault ships. Two of those can be had for the price of a super carrier. Instead of 10 supercarriers, for the same price, there could be 20 carriers. If there were a major battle where the US had two supercarriers in battle instead, by building smaller carriers, like the America-class, there could be four carriers carrying the same or more aircraft and offering greater chance of survival, four ships to sink versus two.
It seems that in this day and age, where supercarriers are more easily at risk, they have become more about status symbols than anything else, a form of 'mine's bigger than yours'. Do ships that complex and expensive, really make sense any more?
Hey, Canada...try building some new ships.
Canada Ping!
Canada had the world’s second biggest navy in WWII, but now they’re more interested in flying rainbow flags and paying for sex changes.
I’m glad I’m out of the forces.
Thanks for the ping.
The Navy operates 13 warships, 12 coastal defence vessels and 4 submarines. The surface ships, which carry the designation Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS), consist of one Iroquois class guided-missile destroyer, twelve Halifax class multi-role patrol frigates, and 12 Kingston class coastal defence vessels. In addition to the surface vessels, the RCN owns four Victoria class submarines that were acquired from the Royal Navy in 1998.
Third largest in the world at the end of WWII. When this ship was commissioned, Canada either still had, or had just recently decommissioned, her last carrier.
I was being sarcastic. I know Canada once had a significant navy but right now the RCN appears to have only 20 ships and one submarine active in their flotilla (20 is not a ‘fleet’ to me.)
In the future Northern American Union:
Canada = Spain
Mexico = Greece (actually worse)
Hemi
Glad you didn’t say tranny.
How do they drop the anchor on that thing?
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