oh hmm that is quite a builduppic.twitter.com/Hh2Vof259c
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oh hmm that is quite a builduppic.twitter.com/Hh2Vof259c
wait did any of those actually get built India still has one iirc and Japan . . . just got one?
to a good approximation, only the US has aircraft carriers a few other countries have a handful as prestige items, but if you look at their days-at-sea-per-year they're ... uh also, ability to sustain flight operations is likewise ... uh Did a deep dive on this a few yrs back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_service … CATOBAR is the only ** REAL ** type of A.C. STOBAR is second tier maintaining a real AC is actually an INSANELY HARD thing, it requires a MASSIVE pyramid of cultural and economic competence
to put on AC in the field with 1,000 sailers you need a service academy, a massive training infrastructure, etc that runs to 10,000 or 50,000 people, then you need a logistics supply chain, all sorts of mil repair shops so that broken components (and things break CONTINUOUSLY)
can be removed from the ship / the planes, replaced with spares from on-ship stores, handed off to ferry ships which run broken parts back, immediately refill on-ship stores with new spares that were already in the pipelines, ferries bring broken back to labs where >
things are analyzed and swapped out at sub-assembly level (perhaps one whole avionics cage got shipped back, it's opened up and 2 boards are pulled and replaced). Assembly rotated back towards the A.C. while the sub assemblies are further diagnosed
and you need an entire culture of truth-tellers not yes-men to investigate WHY components failed, and revision the boards or systems or whatever The US invented aircraft carriers in 1930 or so and has a century's worth of experience. Starting from scratch it might take >>>
30 years, absolute best case, to catch up with us?
Do you think ballistic or hypersonic missiles render them less useful? Might the USN be better off investing more in submarines, for instance?
I worry a lot about missile attacks against carriers that doesn't mean that they're not useful tho 99.99% of running an empire is NOT engaging in WW III
I suppose it's a bit like a t-72 still being super useful against guys without decent ATGMs.
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