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Flying aircraft carriers always seemed like a particularly bad idea to me. Too fragile, a small amount of damage would knock them out of the sky. No?
by nox101 3y ago
Flying aircraft carriers always seemed like a particularly bad idea to me. Too fragile, a small amount of damage would knock them out of the sky. No?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Too fragile, a small amount of damage would knock them out of the sky. No? No. Like regular aircraft carriers, you keep them far away from the battlefield. Their air wing flies in and ideally deploys weapons at range. (This works for the same reason staging rockets extends range.)
- giantrobot 3y agoIt doesn't really work though. An air wing needs fuel, munitions, and maintenance. The more of those things the airship carries, the smaller air wing it can carry. You're not going to fit an air wing capable of meaningful missions on an airship. They couldn't even carry an air wing (and supplies) able to fly defensive CAP missions just to protect itself.