harmonica
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you DON'T get it --do you!!!!!????? hahahahahahHow do you launch an air attack on China or Russia with a carrier without that carrier sinking by the following missile attackFYI = the water covers over 70% of the the Earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do you understand the point????Exactly so carriers can only attack camel equipped nations that do not have modern anti ship missiles.Taiwan?Face It, The Mighty U.S. Aircraft Carrier is Finished | The American Conservative
The first step is acknowledging that in a standoff, it could lose, and badly.www.theamericanconservative.com
Why A New Study Warns That Aircraft Carriers May Be Obsolete (Thanks To Russia And China)
Inexpensive Russian and Chinese weapons, such as cyberwar and antiship missiles, threaten the West’s reliance on expensive arms such as aircraft carriers.taskandpurpose.com
However is America still wants to invade third World nations like Vietnam and Afghanistan or Somalia a carrier could still be useful. However if the USA attacked China or Russia with a carrier the ship would be sunk in under an hour by land based anti ship missiles that number in the thousands
I think America should be working out how to protect the eventual Communist offensive against Taiwan, Japan and Australia rather than just their own offensive measures.
If they don't take Taiwan by force, they will just swallow them by squeezing them economically, denying them travel in various critical areas they require for trade, bribing and buying politicians (as they do to the West) etc.
China is probably just in wait for the right opportunity. They just took H.K and they are working on squeezing the Aussies and NZ economically right now also, keeping them dependent on them. Once done with these irritants, they will turn their sights elsewhere.
By the time China decides to go on the offensive, they could be too advanced, or too rapid in their activities. Worse, a passive, docile America that decides "it's not worth the economic 'benefit' we enjoy from cheap labour in China, so, unfortunately, you're on your own Taiwan".
China will know when to move, it won't be until they are in a much superior position, economically, geo-politically (they are in a great spot based on the U.N and WTO fiascos) and otherwise. They have to choose to eventually expand though with a focus on economics, but we saw their swift and deliberate move into H.K. 1.4B people and weak Western leadership? Just a matter of time...
China has already taken over the USA, and they are training troops in Canada now
That's as stupid a claim as the one in this thread.
And carriers are not necessarily meant to attack China or Russia directly. They can and would perform a valuable function of keeping control of the SLOCs such as to the Persian Gulf.
Build 11 more and this will not change
..you obviously don't know shit about wars except what you play on your PC games...
..in REAL wars, you want to control the oceans/etc--AHHHHH!! that's what the carriers are for
Haven't played a PC game in twenty years as I prefer playing with numbskulls like you
1. the carriers can be used ALL over the world--for a war with China or not!!....YES, they can be used for other wars with other countries--
2. ever hear of a war called WW2??? the carriers RARELY ever attacked Japan..the Doolittle raid should not even be counted --so, for almost the entirety of the war--the carriers never attacked Japan--and that was a NAVAL war!!!