Posted on 05/31/2015 7:21:52 PM PDT by QT3.14
All of a sudden, aircraft carriers are back in fashion.
Over in Russia, they're drawing up plans to build the world's biggest aircraft carrier, a 100,000-ton beast that can carry 100 combat aircraft. China's building one, two, or maybe even four aircraft carriers. And here in the United States, we're busy building our second Ford-class supercarrier.
Around the world and across the seas, aircraft carriers are popping up in the unlikeliest of places -- in Korea, in Thailand, in India, Japan, and maybe soon in Singapore, as well. But you'll never guess the latest country to announce plans to acquire one.
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Now that you point it out, it certainly is odd.. Just what might the problem be? I can’t put much if pngrper on it.
Switzerland, Bolivia, and Paraguay would surprise me.
High altitude loitering drones will render aircraft carriers useless
It’s like someone announcing they are building the largest library in the world.
I am going to guess that satellites and submarines have already done this.
Carriers are just so big that I don't think it is possible for any nation with routine access to space to "lose track" of a carrier, much less a carrier group.
Read up on the Falkland Islands war. This was 32 years ago, but Argentina was unwilling to lose any more ships after the first major sinking and kept them all in port. Even then, if a major power knew where your ships were, they were toast.
Carriers are useful to project power against smaller nations, but not major powers.
Do read up on the Malvinas War. Two Brit nuclear boats managed to lose the Argi carrier, and despite satellite assist couldn’t reacquire it.
The LHD that Turkey is getting is not an aircraft carrier. Australia has 2 of this class and the only fixed wing fighter you could operate off it are Harriers and a dozen of them at best.
As the USN have discovered, operating F35B’s requires significant work done on the ship’s flight deck to cope with the giant blowtorch the JSF becomes in VTOL operations.
The LHDs are excellent amphibious ships but to call them aircraft carriers is just stupid.
I was going to guess Uzbekistan (1 of 2 double landlocked countries) but even China is still a decade away from having a fully functioning carrier group. They don’t even have planes capable of landing/taking off on one.
you’ll never guess
Donald Trump?
High altitude loitering drones will render aircraft carriers useless = target practice
Yet the Brits would have lost the Falkland campaign without fleet fix wing aviation. Carriers will be obsolete when having air superiority over huge swaths of ocean becomes obsolete.
glorious nation of Kazakhstan?
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