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2024-07-05 Arabia

'U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are an Obsolete Weapons System'

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-05 12:55|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 You are welcome to test that assumption at your earliest convenience.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-07-05 14:02|| 2024-07-05 14:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't confuse the sword with the hand that currently holds it.

Posted by Cesare 2024-07-05 14:30|| 2024-07-05 14:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, they're just big targets for submarines. The houthis already chased one CG out of the Gulf.
Too risky to get anywhere near those launchers.

Posted by Vortigern Borgia1150 2024-07-05 16:11|| 2024-07-05 16:11|| Front Page Top

#4 This of course is why the Chinese are trying to build them.
They're a particular tool for a particular job in a particular environment. The strait off Yemen isn't a good place for them. It's a good place for carpet bombing.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-07-05 17:37|| 2024-07-05 17:37|| Front Page Top

#5 they're just big targets for submarines.

Oh my — I needed that laugh after a couple of exhausting weeks. Thank you for being too cute for words, Vortigern Borgia1150. But the Royal Canadian Navy doesn’t have such things, so there’s no way you’d know what carrier groups do to submarines.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-07-05 19:41|| 2024-07-05 19:41|| Front Page Top

#6 [orcas make sport with porppoise] Yuck. Almost rhymes, though.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-07-05 21:13|| 2024-07-05 21:13|| Front Page Top

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