Carriers are the 21st century equivalent of the battleship.
Obsolete $10B targets with new classes of anti-ship missiles.
“Carriers are the 21st century equivalent of the battleship.
Obsolete $10B targets with new classes of anti-ship missiles.”
If it’s all-out war with an advanced enemy, then there’s something to be said for that.
However, in conflicts like Vietnam and the Gulf Wars, they are indispensable.
Agreed but they are gorgeous, intimidating and job building.
“Obsolete $10B targets with new classes of anti-ship missiles.”
You need to refresh your knowledge.
That may have been true 20 years ago, but not now.
The group that surrounds any Carrier at sea is more than capable of negating missile swarm attacks...especially when they know the resulting offensive response.
To expend such enormous resources and not succeed would be a military disaster for any nation so foolhardy as to attempt it.
Thank GOd nobody listens to anti carrier lunatics. Whack jobs who know notning about the Navy.
In 1943, in a remote Alberta lake, workers began to construct a bergship to withstand Nazi U-boat attacks
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/in-1943-in-a-remote-alberta-lake-workers-began-to-construct-a-bergship-to-withstand-nazi-u-boat-attacks