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Come on. You seriously can't think of any situation where the Navy might want to launch planes too far from an air force Base to stage through it? There are ple
by Godel_unicode 10y ago
Come on. You seriously can't think of any situation where the Navy might want to launch planes too far from an air force Base to stage through it? There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of our spending on carriers; this is not one of them.
- gozur88 10y agoThis. The maintenance crews are on the carrier. They can be moved to a land base along with the aircraft, but that would leave the carrier undefended.
- lostlogin 10y agoIsn't carrier defence what the other ships that travel with the carrier do?
- gozur88 10y agoCarrier defense is, in theory, like an onion. Aircraft, SAMs, point defense. Aircraft are probably the most important since not many launching platforms can get into range of the carrier without risking attack by aircraft.