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Noel Williams, War On The Rocks: Samson the Carrier and Goliath the Amphib: Twin Giants of a Compromised Fleet Architecture
The aircraft carrier fleet and the amphibious fleet are typically viewed as polar opposites: the fast nuclear carrier projecting strike aircraft from the deep blue on one side, and the plodding but versatile amphibious ship projecting Marine infantry in the littoral on the other. Despite obvious dissimilarities in speed, payload, and function, they both share a critically important place in the overall fleet architecture — they are both unaffordable anachronisms of a bygone era. The Navy does not have nor will it ever have (barring large-scale conflict) the resources to produce adequate numbers of relevant platforms while also maintaining its commitment to the super carrier and the amphibious fleet as currently designed.
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WNU Editor: These fleets do not do well in war game simulations .... U.S. Keeps Losing Simulated Wars With Russia And China (March 8, 2019).
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"U.S. Keeps Losing Simulated Wars With Russia And China"
I often wonder if publishing these types of reports is nothing more than misinformation operations.
No... Who keeps posting this shit.
I mean ffs carriers where getting sunk in WW2, carriers are going to sink. But we are talking about stealth strike aircraft with nuclear capabilities, have you not heard of the fucken doolittle raid?
They should be relishing losing war games because you learn more from a loss then a win. But i mean a US commanders have never won a major conflict, i takes allied commanders to step up and command a victory.
Can you weaponize a nuclear carrier?
Trojan horse it, fire ship it. Send it into an enemy formation just to have it go BOOM. I mean you play your little war games, you will never grasp the desperation of a real war and just what a man is capable of.
I bet they don't even take into consideration a man and his plane. How an anti ship missile can be intercepted. Or how a merchant fleet of thousands of ships could be militarized for torpedo protection.
Naval fleet operations is 20:years behind the drone revolution that hit the Airforce. No more as drones on the seas will be as revolutionary as the airborne versions have been. Carriers can be a big part of this if they field weapons that extend their attack range well past 1000 nm. Fortunately the Navy has near term plans to do just that.
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