The Juan Carlos
The Juan Carlos
The new fad in the 21st century. Everyone wants a carrier! Everyone wants to force project and show how big their peen is...
So with the ski slope, are the Turks planning to purchase F-35Bs?
It may be a beautiful well designed ship but it would be a leap to rate it an effective warship even if deployed. Foreign navies especially the Chinese all want carriers. However while they may be able to build them or procure them, what they can not readily have are experienced competent crews. The American Navy has over ninety years of carrier experience including much combat. The value of that experience and the constant passing of knowledge cannot be easily created. You can steal plans, buy or produce materials but you cannot easily create competent personnel. It will be a very long time if ever before these foreign navies have effective carriers that can function far from their shores.
Easy to dismiss a single LHA/LHD as an insignificant bit of power compared to US standards. But in the Eastern Med it could indeed change the regional power game. I trust Turkey knows there’s a long learning period before they can employ it effectively. And as a point-centric power platform, it’s a high-value target.
TC
Spaniards build beautiful warships. Always have. Put a Spanish ship into the hands of the English Royal Navy and you have something!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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ping.......... And, the Israelis will wait until the thousand troops are on board with the 150 vehicles and tanks before sinking her..........
To an absolute certainty, this ships life depends entirely upon some future Israeli prime minister not getting too upset at Turkey.