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To: cpdiii
Another land lubber talking about "killing" a carrier. That term "kill" doesn't apply to naval warfare. One missile will not "kill" a carrier. To "kill" a carrier you have sink it. To sink a carrier requires under water hull damage. This requires a torpedo(s) or mines, not a missile(s). It takes two torpedo hits to sink an FFG weighing 5,000 tons. A carrier is 20 times that size so it would take 40 torpedoes to SINK a carrier.

The biggest threat to carriers are the lack of naval repair facilities and dry docks, not missiles. If a carrier limps back to port and there is no place to repair it then that is a soft kill. Thanks to Free Traitors™ our industrial base is not capable of sustaining a protracted naval war. Thanks Free Traitors™.

31 posted on 12/18/2018 1:46:14 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

How about a 10 kT warhead half a mile away?


35 posted on 12/18/2018 1:59:09 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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