sweeny_comodore posted:
Groucho48 posted:
I read somewhere that our carriers have been pretty vulnerable to unorthodox attacks for quite a while. When war gaming, inventive opponents can generally wipe out a carrier pretty easily. It's so bad that there are all sorts of things opponents are no longer allowed to use against carriers in war game scenarios.
when geared towards high tech, low tech becomes incredibly overpowered.
ive brought this up here after many discussions with my 10yr+ navy employee...
our navy, aegis(?), is geared towards fast moving ballistic targets. aside from the helis and on board aircraft, there really is no defense against low tech, motor boats plowing up and jacking major military vessels.
i will, again, refer back to a book i read years ago, that dealt with exactly this scenario. the military tech outpaces the commoner abilities to adapt to it and use it efficiently.
at some point we have a closet full of tools that we dont understand but are told serve specific purposes that are beyond our comprehension to use. all though in the book i read is was all beyond their comprehension to use and we adapted to their tech better and faster than they did, despite the fact that theyd been using it for hundreds of thousands of years.
An Aircraft carrier isn't designed to defend itself, the strike group is. Look where the gun mounts are on board a cruiser, or find out what war shot from a 5" will do to a small boat.
Just because a Carrier is vulnerable by itself doesn't mean we're going to send it underway with zero support. Plus a lot of the arguments seem to believe that it will have none of it's Airwing in the sky. Our anti-ship missiles are devastating. I've watched a Decommissioned DDG absorb a lot of rounds/missiles from other Cruisers/DDGs (No torpedoes were used though) and it didn't start to list.
One missile from an F-18 split the thing in half. A lone carrier strike group can cripple another countries Navy.
Since the USS COLE attack ships run a lot of drills defending from speed boats.
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