Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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D.Duck wrote:
Or an ICBM hits DC.


Yes, well, I'm not sure how that relates to the efficacy of aircraft
carriers.



Because we can bring the conflict to them, rather than hoping (there's that
"Hope" word again) they don't hit us first.

9/11 should have taught us a lesson.

Eisboch




If that concept were ever true...

There's little to nothing an aircraft carrier can do to stop ICBMs
launched from an inland site thousands of miles away. Most of the
Russian ICBM sites are not reachable by carrier-based planes.

Besides, I was discussing the vulnerability of carriers. They are
sitting ducks for ballistic missiles.



--
"In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations."
John McCain, news conference, 13 August 2008, forgetting somehow that
the United States invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003. Another McCain
senior moment?