The world's newest aircraft carriers

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  1. Dayton3

    Dayton3 Well-Known Member

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    What makes you think anyone has any real idea how much the Chinese or Russians (or for that matter India) spends on their militaries? The military budget in many countries isn't plastered all over publicly accessible sites like the American one is.
     
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    I expect nothing but denial from you.
     
  3. Dayton3

    Dayton3 Well-Known Member

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    Personal attack from you. Of course.
     
  4. Giftedone

    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What ever dude ... each one of them is an obsolete floating city of death in the face of modern missile technology.
     
  5. Dayton3

    Dayton3 Well-Known Member

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    Why have none of them ever been attacked by a missile then? Wouldn't even hitting and damaging a carrier be a real feather in the cap of even a minor power like Iran or North Korea? And anti ship cruise missiles like IIRC Exocet are available on the international black market. Why haven't terrorists taken a shot or two at a carrier?

    After all we're talking decades that supercarriers have been in service.

    Finally, the U.S. hasn't fought a "peer competitor" since World War Two. All our conflicts have been against at best second rate powers. Given that doesn't it behoove us to also be prepared to fight and defeat those second rate powers in low level conflicts?
     
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    Oh it's not personal pops, merely observational. You reject data every time. And you foolishly still believe your power structure tells you the truth.
     
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    dude ....dude ....dude .... are fighting words dude.

    Calling someone a dude is calling one a pantywaist.
    It's challenging one to fisticuffs.

    Well it was before the early 1980's.

    During the early 80's the hospital ER rooms were full of teenagers and young adults of the generation X who made the mistake referring to a baby boomer or one from the luckiest generation as a dude and ended up getting their butts whooped and not knowing why.

    It's like calling someone a punk. Do you know what a punk is ? It's a homosexual in prison. Being punked off in prison is being raped in prison.
    That's why on the streets when you called someone a punk, it was fighting words.

    Since this is the military forum, we all know what "Semper Fi" is.
    Do you know what "Semper Fi Mac" means ?
    It's WW ll Marine Corps slang for "**** you."
     
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    Putin says he nukes everybody if his allies are to be hit. What do you expect? A fall in spending?
     
  9. Dayton3

    Dayton3 Well-Known Member

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    Why do you call me "pops"? Unless you don't remember that my avatar photo is of my 88 year old father before he died last year.
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Good gracious this is mindless twaddle. Its not like we do not have the capability to attack Chinese or Russian ships ... Just because we have the capability does not mean you go out and start a war with a nuclear superpower.

    Holy carp what a nonsensical statement. All these years on the planet and you could not figure something so simple on your own.

    Of course we should be, and are, prepared to defend ourselves against a second rate power. We do not need 11 carrier strike groups and 800 bases around the world to do this.

    I should not continue wasting my time but, the reason we have such a big military is to put money in the pockets of the international financiers and Oligarchs that own the Military Industrial Complex and Banks.

    You said you were a historian ... here is some history for you.

    Eisenhower saw what was happening in 1961 and predicted the future.. at least in part. Things are much worse than even he imagined.
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I meant it in the kindest possible way :)
     
  12. Dayton3

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    In that same speech Eisenhower called for a large peacetime military because in any future conflict there would be "no time for mobilization" and our armed forces would have to "come as we are".

    What do you mean by "all these years on planet"? I'm only 50 years old.

    Note, Eisenhower was also a big advocate of being willing to use nuclear weapons to win international disputes. Would you support his more casual approach to the use of nuclear weapons?
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    After 5 decades on this planet you should be able to figure out why Russia does just wake up in the morning and target US aircraft carriers.

    Then you get into another mindless strawman (accusing me of something I did not say so you have something to attack). Sad that you were teaching history yet have such little understanding of logic, logical fallacy and critical thinking.

    I understand Ave. Joe lacking these basic skills but there is no excuse for someone who teaches History.

    I suppose there is no time like the present to begin your education.

    Lesson 1. "Non Sequitur" - "it does not follow". This is a fallacy where A does not follow from B.

    It does not follow that because someone agree's with one idea that Eisenhower expressed, one agrees with all of Eisenhower's ideas.

    baby steps ...
     
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    Yeah...I know that the meaning and or the definition of words can change over time.

    Who would have ever thought that the M-16 would ever be called an assault ?
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Get back on the page ! Aircraft Carriers ... now that is an assault technology :)
     
  16. Dayton3

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    You are correct in this point but I thought I could slip one by you.

    I'm sure you know that the opposite is also true.
     
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    People call each other all kinds of things on line shoog, and why would I remember you other than for your penchant for denial? At any rate, here, "pops" free;

    Oh it's not personal, merely observational. You reject data every time. And you foolishly still believe your power structure tells you the truth.
     
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  18. Giftedone

    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Glad that you have stepped up and taken responsibility for posting disingenuous nonsense. Please stifle that urge in the future :)
     
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    This is what every one of those that claims the "Carrier is obsolete" seems to miss.

    A carrier does not operate on it's own, no more than a tank does. It has a lot of other support systems around, in the case of carriers it has cruisers and destroyers. In addition to aircraft flying CAP and E2C AWAC aircraft. Any missiles have to be able to get through all of that before they can even hope to engage the carrier.

    And every few years we are improving and making new missile and air defense systems. The newest on the Ford is the RIM-162 ESSM, which is designed to intercept supersonic missiles.

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    I don't consider the "power structure" in the United States to be some monolithic political/economic entity which sets out to deceive and oppress the American people. I believe most of the "bad" things done to be largely due to negligence and lack of interest.
     
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    What the "carrier is obsolete" crowd routinely does though (at least it seems) is promote the idea that if one or two carriers are destroyed in a major war that it means they are overly vulnerable of obsolete.

    They ignore the fact that the U.S. Navy itself estimated that in an all out conventional war with the Soviet Union in the 1980s that we would lose 4-6 supercarriers.

    They also (as Giftedone has in this very thread) love to talk about carriers vulnerability in a nuclear war. Let me give them a clue. EVERYTHING is vulnerable in a nuclear war. And if nuclear weapons start destroying carrier battle groups I guarantee that no one in any major country is going to give a damn one way or the other.
     
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    Not entirely accurate.

    It is not detectable from the surface until about a minute prior to intercept if detected by surface RADAR. It is detected much further away via airborne RADAR like the E2C. And of course it would also be detected by the picket ships of the CSG first, which would be many miles in front, behind, and to the sides.

    Not to mention the other systems used to detect such threats. In the event of operating in high threat conditions, there will also be submarines on picket duty at even further distances with their RADAR masts deployed. This would give even more warning.
     
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    Those that studied the expected actions of a WWIII scenario of that era are all to well aware of that. I was, because it is highly likely if it had ever happened I would have been involved personally.

    "The Third World War: August 1985" by Sir John Hackett was the first such serious book I had read. Somewhat obsolete shorty after it was released (1978). it of course did not take into account the fall of Iran. But it went into quite a bit of detail of the expected path such a war would have taken. And he was knowledgeable on the subject, having been both the Deputy Chief of Staff for the British Army, and Co-Commander of NATO's Northern Army Group (the defense of Germany).

    Another more of a popularist type was of course Red Storm Rising.

    The famous segment in that book ("Dance of the Vampires") was akin to how the Soviets would make such a strike. Waves of bombers launching missiles at the carriers.

    And anybody who read the book can tell you how that ended. With the carriers damaged (not sunk) and returning to base for repairs, and most of the Soviet bomber fleet destroyed. It was literally a one-shot attack that so badly damaged the bomber forces that they were combat ineffective for the rest of the war (giving NATO almost unrestricted access to the North Atlantic).

    And of course the engagement described was missing a lot of anti-air systems that were developed and emplaced between the writing of the book, and when the engagement was supposed to have taken place.
     
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    Agreed .. that said, even if you know they are on the way, the ship is still not able to react until the missile breaches the horizon.
     
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    Actually in Red Storm Rising the Soviet Backfire bomber force was almost entirely undamaged by the U.S. fighters after all four squadrons of Tomcats were decoyed away by modified Kelt missiles launched by TU-16 Badgers. France F-8 Crusaders managed to kill a handful of the Backfires after they launched their anti ship missiles.

    In all about 12 of the Soviet anti ship missiles reached their targets. Two severely damaged Nimitz. One lightly damaged Saratoga. Three destroyed the French Foch. Two blew apart the Saipan (and killed more than 2,000 U.S. Marines). One severely damaged Ticonderoga. At least three more hit and sank two destroyers and a frigate.

    The Soviet Backfires were later all but massacred when they attempted a massive air strike on the U.S. forces involved in retaking Iceland. That time, the USN was ready for them.
     

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