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2023-01-18 Science & Technology

Navy's Huge Expeditionary Sea Bases Could Become Drone Motherships

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 and big targets

Posted by lord garth 2023-01-18 00:14|| 2023-01-18 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 So could most anything you could add cargo containers to.

Posted by magpie 2023-01-18 01:03|| 2023-01-18 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Huge aircraft carriers in the sky is a reality now. No need for land or sea platforms. So as areas like the Solomon's go down air platforms will fill in our need for being there as a deterrent or warning.

Posted by Dale 2023-01-18 04:02|| 2023-01-18 04:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm trying to determine the ship's crew -- if any -- needed to work this ship. Granted it could have various missions, but with a change in mission is there a change in numbers of crew -- if any. Or am I visualizing what I saw coming a decade ago, a humanless military inventory run by a bunch of deskjockeys out at Nellis? 00

Posted by Tarzan Grolump8219 2023-01-18 08:56|| 2023-01-18 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 a humanless military inventory

No graft in that.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-18 10:37|| 2023-01-18 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The only peer vs. peer carrier war we have experienced was the WW2 Pacific Theater. One notable characteristic was that carriers fighting were more like matter / antimatter collisions: "You sink one of mine and I sink one of yours ... unless I have a whole lot more than you and then it is a Turkey Shoot." The question is if the 'Drone Mothership" has swung the tactic calculus towards building multiple 'small carriers' instead of the "size has its own economy" Super carriers the US is building...? Time will tell.

Posted by magpie 2023-01-18 19:18|| 2023-01-18 19:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Garth, the term in the surface navy is "bullet magnet". You protect the big boat, but not from too close.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-01-18 19:31|| 2023-01-18 19:31|| Front Page Top

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