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Re:Why China Is Obsessed with America's Aircraft Carriers by request_id on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:26AM (#21506079)
Spending the trillions needed to build and support carriers is stupid.

If we ever have another war with china, low cost drones will take out carriers, not other carriers.

China will spend millions on drone warfare while the US spends billions.

I'm sure the author of this article knows more than I do but I don't think this is a well supported thesis.

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Re:Why China Is Obsessed with America's Aircraft Carriers by throw_this_one on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:48AM (#21506312)
You think low-cost drones can just be targeted by existing air defense systems and a laser defense system? Probably those hypersonic glide vehicles are the ones to worry most about. Basically only beatable if you can make them mistarget.
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Re:Why China Is Obsessed with America's Aircraft Carriers by mtnGoat on Monday November 11, 2019 @03:34PM (#21508598)
here is a very contradictory opinion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2019/05/21/ten-re...

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Re:Why China Is Obsessed with America's Aircraft Carriers by downrightmike on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:08PM (#21506509)
China is already selling attack drones to the saudis.
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Re:Why China Is Obsessed with America's Aircraft Carriers by codesushi42 on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:54PM (#21509805)
Huh? Carriers are intended to be mobile bases for launching aircraft that go on to stage air strikes. While they are armed, they aren't intended for attacking other ships.

And what size of payload would a drone need to take down a carrier? That is just silly.

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