Another example of supercarriers being needed.

[DudleySmith]

You know something? I am bored. You stopped being even entertaining in your factual ignorance ages ago, and you are not even interesting anymore.

You bring up almost nothing factual, only vomit up some of your strange opinions disguised as facts, and often horribly wrong from reality and history.

Yes, I guess to you that you must be right. Japan was no threat, was never a threat, the US and the rest of the world should just have ignored Japan.

So these are the last of the strawmen you're going to throw out ? Good. You know pretty much nothing, despite your claims.

 

[whitehall]

"Supercarriers" are about aggression and fighter capability but sadly there aren't anymore targets so "supercarriers" have become little military cities and soap operas with cops and sexual drama. Look up the pregnancy record. The point is that the days of the supercarrier Naval warfare are over and the ships are just a political name for an old tired Vets.

 

[Dayton3]

"Supercarriers" are about aggression and fighter capability but sadly there aren't anymore targets so "supercarriers" have become little military cities and soap operas with cops and sexual drama. Look up the pregnancy record. The point is that the days of the supercarrier Naval warfare are over and the ships are just a political name for an old tired Vets.

Ignoring the obvious. Carriers played vital role in the Korean War, Vietnam War, and Desert Storm despite there being no significant naval opposition in any of those conflicts.

 

[DudleySmith]

Re the WW II claims, the battle of Coral Sea was in May of '42, Midway the next month; both pretty much left the Pacific theater a mopping up operation before most of the new fleet carriers ever left dry docks, and Roosevelt moved on to concentrate on North Africa,going with Churchhill's 'soft underbelly' strategy instead of Marshall's wanting to invade France in '43 instead of waiting, mostly in response to Rommel's looming threat to the Suez Canal and the Arabian oil fields. As FDR said,'Germany could survive without the Japanese, but the Japanese could not survive on their own.'

 

[Mushroom]

both pretty much left the Pacific theater a mopping up operation before most of the new fleet carriers ever left dry docks

Right, sure they did.

And just ignore all of the other battles that happened after that, the Philippine Sea, Savo Island, Samar, and Guadalcanal was just "mopping up". You really keep showing over and over that you know nothing about the Pacific Theater.

At Savo Island, the US got it's butt kicked by the way. And at Samar we had significant losses, including 2 carriers. "Mopping up" indeed.

 

[DudleySmith]

Right, sure they did.

And just ignore all of the other battles that happened after that, the Philippine Sea, Savo Island, Samar, and Guadalcanal was just "mopping up". You really keep showing over and over that you know nothing about the Pacific Theater.

At Savo Island, the US got it's butt kicked by the way. And at Samar we had significant losses, including 2 carriers. "Mopping up" indeed.

You really keep showing you're just a troll. When their offensive capabilities of their Navy was lost, they were steadily rolled back and their homeland bombed. So yes, it was mopping up; they were going nowhere, and just sitting there waiting to get rolled up. Nobody said it wasn't a nasty slog, but a mop up it was.