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> nuclear powered > any port it chooses to refuel in Do we have a lot of ports to refuel nuclear powered aircraft carriers?

• frugalmail 10y ago
  It's to avoid Scurvy
• gaelian 10y ago
  Perhaps "resupply" would have been a better word.
  • brilliantcode 10y ago
    you are correct I did make a mistake there. However, like the other comment suggested, nuclear carriers rarely travel alone without the protection of large naval assets deployed around it. If only AI was running all of the naval air assets on a carrier, no food, self sustaining & maintaining. I'd imagine an increase of frequency in US naval carrier groups patrolling oceans closer as a result of the cost savings of reducing manned staff with AI and robots but that's another topic.
• dingaling 10y ago
  Escort ships need to be refuelled; the plurality of a carrier group is oil-burning.