Posted on Jun 4, 2018

The Question the Navy Doesn’t Want to Ask: Is the Aircraft Carrier Obsolete?

PO1 Tony Holland

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The Question the Navy Doesn’t Want to Ask: Is the Aircraft Carrier Obsolete?

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Maj John Bell

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Let's see. When was the last time planes from a carrier reached out and touched someone...? When was the last time one was significantly damaged in action by the enemy...? Hmmm

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Yesterday, the battle of midway

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Maj John Bell

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LCDR (Join to see) - So obviously there is only one logical replacement

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Maj John Bell - has the advantage of stealth

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Cooperative Engagement Capability

Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) brings revolutionary new capability to naval air and missile defense, not by adding new radars or weapon systems, but...

The whole argument revolves around missiles which assuming they actually work, which would be against everything we have seen from the other Russian based systems. Our layered defense in depth tactics would have a lot of opportunities to shoot it down, and then if that fails we have the best point defense systems in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumIk1MwVPM

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MAJ Ken Landgren

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No. You can't replicate the aircraft carriers unique capabilities.

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