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Shahed is a range of drones from Shahed company. The Shahed 136 is the one your are talking about that Iran and Russia are making thousands. As I mentioned, the

Shahed is a range of drones from Shahed company. The Shahed 136 is the one your are talking about that Iran and Russia are making thousands. As I mentioned, they are limited usefulness in naval combat. I thought Iran was selling Russia low-cost long-range cruise missiles but hard to find article with drones and ballistic missiles. The Houthi do have copy of Iranian copy of Kh-55. The fact that rebels can build anti-ship missile, even a few, should be concerning. It means that more capable countries could build hundreds and overwhelm carrier group. Lots of aircraft carriers have been sunk. Are you thinking of only nuclear supercarriers? Cause of there has been no war where one could have been sunk. The Forrestal fire shows that they are vulnerable to a single rocket (Navy firefighting has gotten better as result). It doesn't matter if they are scuttled if destroyed by fire.

onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
> Lots of aircraft carriers have been sunk Not a single aircraft carrier has been sunk in combat.
- ianburrell 2y ago
  Are you saying that none of the four Japanese carriers and one American carrier sunk in Battle of Midway weren't sunk in combat? Some were scuttled during the battle, but again, there isn't much practical difference between destroyed and sunk. There were also multiple carriers sunk by submarines. Torpedo counts as "in combat" and a few were in battles. Yorktown was crippled by bombers and then sunk by Japanese submarine. Zuikaku was quickly sunk by aircraft in Battle of Leyte Gulf. If you are talking about gunfire, HMS Glorious was sunk by Scharnhorst. So what are you talking about? Do you mean "post-war", "with missiles", or "supercarrier"? Cause you should say that. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_aircraft_carriers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_aircraft_carrie...

onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago

> Lots of aircraft carriers have been sunk Not a single aircraft carrier has been sunk in combat.

ianburrell 2y ago
Are you saying that none of the four Japanese carriers and one American carrier sunk in Battle of Midway weren't sunk in combat? Some were scuttled during the battle, but again, there isn't much practical difference between destroyed and sunk. There were also multiple carriers sunk by submarines. Torpedo counts as "in combat" and a few were in battles. Yorktown was crippled by bombers and then sunk by Japanese submarine. Zuikaku was quickly sunk by aircraft in Battle of Leyte Gulf. If you are talking about gunfire, HMS Glorious was sunk by Scharnhorst. So what are you talking about? Do you mean "post-war", "with missiles", or "supercarrier"? Cause you should say that. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_aircraft_carriers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_aircraft_carrie...