Topic: Aircraft Carrier is obsolete as a modern Weapon

rattler · April 3rd, 2009

Those beasts are extremely hard to take out, even with sh*tloads of missiles directed at them, their anti-missile screens can take out a lot.

We once in a wargame simulation took out one (there is a ENN video of the attack at http://enn.electronicnewsnetwork.com...r/ENN-GT-9.php , to read the story click on the carrier, to see the vid click to the right of it), but it took the whole Northern Fleet of the Russians bound into a combined arms effort and many other factors had to be favorable (e.g. we attacked in a heavy storm where the carrier could only muster limited fighter support, etc). I recall that we needed enormous amounts of misslie waves to just get through...

I still have the sitrep of that event somewhere (but cannot find it currently, though it is also on the first of those pages, just read through all the sitreps of JAN 2, scroll down to sitreps section) where you can read the details and numbers to see how difficult such an endeavor is:

http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Globalth...TheaterHQ.html

Here the according maps (partially)

http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Globalth...redtheater.htm

http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Globalth...plot-red-8.GIF

Rattler

April 3rd, 2009
rattler	Those beasts are extremely hard to take out, even with shtloads of missiles directed at them, their anti-missile screens can take out a lot. We once in a wargame simulation took out one (there is a ENN video of the attack at http://enn.electronicnewsnetwork.com...r/ENN-GT-9.php , to read the story click on the carrier, to see the vid click to the right of it), but it took the whole Northern Fleet of the Russians bound into a combined arms effort and many other factors had to be favorable (e.g. we attacked in a heavy storm where the carrier could only muster limited fighter support, etc). I recall that we needed enormous amounts of misslie waves to just get through... I still have the sitrep of that event somewhere (but cannot find it currently, though it is also on the first of those pages, just read through all the sitreps of JAN 2, scroll down to sitreps section) where you can read the details and numbers to see how difficult such an endeavor is: http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Globalth...TheaterHQ.html Here the according maps (partially) http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Globalth...redtheater.htm http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Globalth...plot-red-8.GIF Rattler 15M(ay):* Noooobody! ...expects the Spanish Revolution!: Update SEP 2011: Now reached US, called "Occupy Wall Street" and they claim they invented it. Thanks for learning from Spain! Last edited by rattler; April 3rd, 2009 at 22:35..