Oh, yeah...you’re one of those guys that think air planes will one day sink ships! We all know that can’t happen!
(snicker)
So here's what worries me about that. The Russkis are tooling about in their 11,000-mile-range ancient Bear turboprop bombers, flown by equally ancient (and deaf) pilots), loaded with 500-600-mile range ASM missiles of one funky Russki sort or another.
Say 25 of'em launch 75 missiles at a CVN from 350 miles or more out ... can we take out ALL 75 missiles? Even if we know where the Bears are, can we survive a sneak attack?
Them big flat decks make me very nervous. I remember my days guarding the Fulda Gap ... the Russkis believe that quantity has a quality all its own. Can they just overwhelm our yachts?
Yeah. (Shaking head). These guys start to believe in heavier-than-air flight and look where they end up. Some of them even think they're going to take off and land from a ship. And just what, I ask you, are they going to do about the sails, hmm?
The whole ironclad thing is a dead end. I mean, come on, guys, iron sinks, right?