The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers

Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by knodi123 on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:16PM (#11899310)

> : The aircraft carrier became the dominant naval warfare tech in 1942, 74 years ago. 74 years before that was just after the U.S. Civil War. I wonder how many Civil War technologies remained dominant in WWII; probably not much in the navy.

Fighter planes are that old too. And machine guns, and grenades, and even night vision goggles. But the aircraft carrier of today is very different from the aircraft carriers of WW2, and so is the rest of that equipment. Except the grenade.

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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by hollerith on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:00PM (#11917765)

The M2 50-calibre machine gun is still very heavily used by the US Army and the US Navy and is a WW II-era design. In fact, I think a lot of the M2 currently in use were manufactured during WW II.

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