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IB1RS = IN before the 1st ramp strike
IB1E = IN before the 1st ejection...
Just sayin'
Hehehe...depends on who they are pitted against.
we are doing more and more exercises with the INdians and once they get those Kolkata DDG escorts their CSGs will be pretty storng. Their second indegenous carrier is supposed to be full CATOBAR with cats, and they are already buying Hawkeyes from us, so that will make that particular carrier very strong.
Basically you have China, Pakistan, and Russia kind of taking sides. The US, Korea, Jpana and Australia pitted against them, with the Indians sort of in the middle but more and more leaning our way.
The new Japanese Hyuga and the follow-on, larger 22DDH carriers are pretty impressive. the Korean Dokdo LHD is too, particularly if they load 10-12 F-35Bs on it one day. And the Korean SeJong class AEGIS vessels are really cruisers and are an already built version of the Burke Flight II class. They have three of them thus far.
Lot’s of naval technology being developed in the RIMPAC area.
And the new Daring Class the UK has put out will be great escorts for their two new large carriers if they can ever get them built.