• olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    honest question doesn’t aircraft carriers serves mostly to bully small and underdeveloped nations?

    like, something that size and slow, seems like a easy target for any decent navy or air force

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      1 year ago

      Yes, US military is geared for that, the fact revealed by the ammunition and supply debacle in the Ukraine war.

      Carriers are used for the good old gunboat diplomacy.

      And it’s not only even hypersonic missiles that are danger to them. Quite long time ago Swedish navy proven during the NATO maneuvers that competently used non-nuclear submarine can sink the carrier too. There’s also strange coincidence between Iran proving they have working supercavitating torpedoes and USN reluctance to sail the carriers into Persian Gulf. Btw NATO still don’t have such torpedoes too while USSR had them since 1977.