I'm surprised it even floats.
Where is the USS Gerald Ford?
The World Wonders.
I'm surprised it even floats.
Indian Army Mistakes Planets for Enemy Drones
Here’s a point I’ve made eleventy-bajillion times: People aren’t familiar with the sky. This is understandable, and generally curable—go out and look...slate.com
It is becoming way too costly.Soon being years or a couple decades max - it won't last forever. Your correct in the US is the only one that can do it globally, but what is the incentive for the US to continue to do it? There is no cold war to fight. We don't need middle east Oil? Our trade is only 10% of total GDP and almost half of that is Nafta, so the "economic" interests aren't that great, and we can defend our own merchant marine going to countries we want to without having to pay to defend everyone else's.
Its not a matter of capability, its a matter that the US is still defending an old system that benefits others more than it benefits us. We have fewer soldiers stationed abroad than any time since before WW2. The Navy footprint will come next.
1 hit 19 missed.I’ve wondered the same thing.
What if enemy shot 20 ‘Harpoon type’ anti ship missiles at aircraft carrier ?
12 hit and 8 miss the target.
You are singing my tune. Aircraft carriers are the WWII Battleship. Our carriers and planes are valued close to 200 Billion. These carriers have a big bullseye painted on them. And 5,000 men per carrier?? Insane.this. an aircraft carrier is really expensive to build, maintain, operate, defend, lose and replace.
i’m no naval strategist and my humble naval service was spent sitting in locked rooms ashore looking at classified photos of soviet stuff or writing papers. i recall being told that an aircraft carrier is a great boxer with a glass jaw. what i thought were well-reasoned appraisals back then informed that, in a hot war with the ussr, an aircraft carrier in the north atlantic would be lucky to launch one, just maybe two, air strikes before being put out of action. i surmise that the next conventional war (god forbid) will demonstrate if the value of today’s large-deck aircraft carriers will evaporate as the value of battleships did by 1945.
there are others here with far more informed opinions than mine.
There is a psychological aspect to an air craft carrier sitting off the coast of some banana republic implying to a dictator to think twice before he does anything he may regret....can't really get that affect by a submerged submarine.You are singing my tune. Aircraft carriers are the WWII Battleship. Our carriers and planes are valued close to 200 Billion. These carriers have a big bullseye painted on them. And 5,000 men per carrier?? Insane.
I love Fast attack subs. The newer class Block IV will carry 40 Tomahawks each. Air Dominance is harder and harder to achieve bc of anti-aircraft systems. But we'll have to dream on. The more toys the Navy gets the the more they will continue to get.
1 hit 19 missed.
We have a large defense budget and are doing both. The new Constellation class frigate, light amphibious warship, LUSV, etc. The Marine Corp is ditching tanks, etc. We also actually do have smaller carriers of a sort (see LHA 6) which is basically the same displacement as this Indian ship.We seem to keep building bigger and bigger carriers while everyone else is going smaller
true except red china is no banana republic. gunboat diplomacy was just that, not ship of the line, capital ship diplomacy that was employed to keep the peace with third-rate powers.There is a psychological aspect to an air craft carrier sitting off the coast of some banana republic implying to a dictator to think twice before he does anything he may regret....can't really get that affect by a submerged submarine.
We have a large defense budget and are doing both. The new Constellation class frigate, light amphibious warship, LUSV, etc. The Marine Corp is ditching tanks, etc. We also actually do have smaller carriers of a sort (see LHA 6) which is basically the same displacement as this Indian ship.
Carriers present unique challenges both in terms of how to defend them, and in terms of what they require of the enemy. Having to defend them is a good problem to have
jeff
They'll get it sorted out. I have more faith in the USN than in India's Navy.Where is the USS Gerald Ford?
The World Wonders.
They're just starting construction of the first one now, though delivery isn't until 2026 if reporting is correct. Different mission than LCS but it does fill the same smaller/cheaper than a DDG role.I don’t think the new Constellation frigates have even started up yet. Aren’t those supposed to take the place of the failed LCS ships?
Big problems if it gets hit by just 1.