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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by mcv on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:40AM (#11901941)
> Aircraft carriers probably made the difference in the Falklands war.

British carriers are much smaller and cheaper than American supercarriers, though.

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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by lmm on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:43AM (#11901953)
True - although I've also seen soldiers claim that full-size carriers would have been much more useful, and perhaps that the invasion would not have happened if Britain had still been operating the Ark Royal.

(Most immediately the sinking of HMS Sheffield might have gone quite differently if the British had been capable of operating fixed-wing AWACS)

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