Yossarian
Forum Resistance Leader
Okay there is enough theoretical evidence and enough common knowledge to know the effects of U.S. Aircraft Carriers over seas, and there was a time and place a super Carrier off your coast line was a strong exhibition of the "big stick" But there are enough planners and even more cost effective means to get rid of this expensive military component, if it can not currently be done, even admist a CSF right now.
The means are there, it's funny to see that a carrier can survive a nuclear blast, yet the simple cold war era missile may be it's downfall.
What I am saying, is I think that like expensive plate armor and highly trained horsemen of the days of yore came to victim to the lowly trained gunman, the advent of gunpowder's uses as we know it to fashionable suits of shiny armor then. This with many other examples shows that expense is not everything spared or not. Carriers may be in the same.
Now to the thread topic, this is not focused on HOW a carrier will be taken out (lord forbidding that situation never arises). BUT how ware fare and U.S. foreign diplomacy will have to change in a world that holds absence of these mighty warships being used in the fashion they are now, I am not saying they will be completely obsolete, looking at WW ll carriers being lost were expected, now however one carrier down would be much more impactive.
Times are changing, until forcefield technology or Super Carriers flying into outer space occurs, their uses may go the way of the battleship, when you stick a of cost 4.5 billion to your big sitck, you kinda don't wanna risk in combat, and if you can't use a weapon in combat? Then what use is it at all? Carriers may go the way of the battleship, fine display of military budget, nothing more.
For those who just skipped to the end of the thread, it's simple, American carriers are becoming more and more vulnerable, and expensive, missile technology is empowering more and more regional powers to strike at carriers, even in the midst of CSFs, either the carriers go, and U.S. policy changes, or they adjust majorly operating procedures, until point defense weapons technology closes the gap, then again, thats a cat and mouse game in it's self between offensive, and defensive technologies...
The means are there, it's funny to see that a carrier can survive a nuclear blast, yet the simple cold war era missile may be it's downfall.
What I am saying, is I think that like expensive plate armor and highly trained horsemen of the days of yore came to victim to the lowly trained gunman, the advent of gunpowder's uses as we know it to fashionable suits of shiny armor then. This with many other examples shows that expense is not everything spared or not. Carriers may be in the same.
Now to the thread topic, this is not focused on HOW a carrier will be taken out (lord forbidding that situation never arises). BUT how ware fare and U.S. foreign diplomacy will have to change in a world that holds absence of these mighty warships being used in the fashion they are now, I am not saying they will be completely obsolete, looking at WW ll carriers being lost were expected, now however one carrier down would be much more impactive.
Times are changing, until forcefield technology or Super Carriers flying into outer space occurs, their uses may go the way of the battleship, when you stick a of cost 4.5 billion to your big sitck, you kinda don't wanna risk in combat, and if you can't use a weapon in combat? Then what use is it at all? Carriers may go the way of the battleship, fine display of military budget, nothing more.
For those who just skipped to the end of the thread, it's simple, American carriers are becoming more and more vulnerable, and expensive, missile technology is empowering more and more regional powers to strike at carriers, even in the midst of CSFs, either the carriers go, and U.S. policy changes, or they adjust majorly operating procedures, until point defense weapons technology closes the gap, then again, thats a cat and mouse game in it's self between offensive, and defensive technologies...
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