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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by Godel_unicode on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:50PM (#12897203)
Come on. You seriously can't think of any situation where the Navy might want to launch planes too far from an air force Base to stage through it? There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of our spending on carriers; this is not one of them.
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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by gozur88 on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:28PM (#12897371)
This. The maintenance crews are on the carrier. They can be moved to a land base along with the aircraft, but that would leave the carrier undefended.
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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by lostlogin on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:45AM (#12898612)
Isn't carrier defence what the other ships that travel with the carrier do?
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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by gozur88 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:23AM (#12898806)
Carrier defense is, in theory, like an onion. Aircraft, SAMs, point defense. Aircraft are probably the most important since not many launching platforms can get into range of the carrier without risking attack by aircraft.
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