Nuclear? That is a game with no good ending.
Professor, how about a nice game of chess?
“The ship was pummeled by explosions both above and below the waterline,” The War Zone reporter Tyler Rogoway explained in 2018. “After nearly four weeks of these activities, the carrier was scuttled. On May 14, 2005, the vessel’s stern disappeared below the waterline and the ship began its voyage to the seafloor.”
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A single nuclear-tipped cruise missile, and it’s game over for a carrier. Carriers were a game changer in WW2, they’ll be obsolete in WW3.
“they’ll be obsolete in WW3”
Assuming, as you do that WWIII is a nuclear conflagration, nobody will bother shooting at carriers.
Everyone will have bigger fish to fry.
Cruise missiles are far to slow to get past an Aircraft Carriers multiple levels of defense.
Besides China’s first shot on our Carrier would be it’s last. They haven’t one chance in 10 million in prevailing in a war against us, in fact no nation today and no combination of Nations have a chance in hell of avoiding annihilation should they decide to launch.
WW-III began with Operation Masterdom
in Vietnam
on September 13, 1945
Nuclear? That is a game with no good ending.
Professor, how about a nice game of chess?