START BUILDING THESE

The US has more carriers in READY RESERVE than any country has currently IN SERVICE. The key to a powerful country, is a powerful navy. Our strike capability is unmatched. No foreign power will ever step foot on our soil, their fleet would be blown off the face of the earth. Catch up and BUILD THESE NOW. Im looking at you Great Britain.

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>WE

>HAVE A HUGE NAVY

>WUZ

Why so Russia can sink them with a $5000 missile?

But we have you to do it for us now

carriers are 2nd millennium weapons

>Russia says new UK aircraft carrier 'a convenient target'

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Tantalwuchtpfeile vernichten jeden Träger - frag mal deinen Chinesen du blöder nigger

Absolutely not, not only do carriers have state of the art missile defence and air defence capabilities, so does every ship sailing within their group.

the best weapon a country can have these days is a uneducated population of brown people that they can allow to invade whichever country they want to destroy.

*blocks your path*

Nicht wahr, brüdi))))

Tis only a scratch.

lel

>US has the most aircraft carriers

>no ramps

LOL
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Didn't you know that we've got the first of an entirely new class coming out next year?
>CLANG
Feel sorry for the dudes who got straight up crushed in there, it was bound to happen eventually though.

>The US has more carriers in READY RESERVE than any country has currently IN SERVICE.

That's nice.

We already have a XBOXHEUG navy though you turbo brainlet. And the new Gerald R. Ford class carriers are being built as we speak.

I heard at one point the Fitz was listing starboard so badly the main deck was at the waterline. The fact she didn't capsize is amazing to me.

I wonder what Material Condition she was at during the collision.

>CURRENTLY

Carriers provided force projection, but they are not invincible. Without proper support they, and any other ship is just a metal coffin at sea. The ones pictured are older and apart of the reserve fleet up here near Bremerton, and though effectively mothballed they are far from useless. Modern carriers and submarines by extension are valued as such because they are limited by fuel, nuclear power and all. This means they can project force anywhere around the world and do so for extended periods of time, granted submarine's limiting factor is how much food you can cram into the hallways.

>braps your path

Wat do?

Retrofit even one of those to be an automated carrier with onboard drone launchers with computerized maintenance bays.

Imagine a drone platform with potentially thousands of weaponized fliers.

They are not limited by fuel*

Hangover's a bitch.

Wait for XP to crash and do a 360.

Joke's on you, they have just rebooted it. Now it will surely last another 10 minutes.

>USS Kitty Hawk
>Kitty

People will really fear you with a name like that.

COLUMBIA RULES THE WAVES

*shot down 50 miles out by carrier plane*

Really the russian idea is to launch about 50 of those missles and overwhelm the anti missle defenses

I saw this thumbnail in passing and thought it was a picture of some bagged up niggers hanging from trees
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why would anyone want to build those? they're a complete waste of money and are just a big fat easy target in real war.

carriers are useless in modern combat. They are only effective vs enemies that have no means to counter them. They just let america bully weaker countries easier with them.

>Canada
>Leaf
People will really fear you with a symbole like that.

IDIOTS, WHY THE FUCK DO THEY HAVE ALL 4 IN ONE PLACE WHERE THEY CAN BE DESTROYED ALL AT ONCE REEEEEEEEEEEE!

More like 50000 but yes absolutely.

The shitty kitty isn't even worth sinking.
Fuck her, hard.

My Grandfather served on the Ranger. There's no way she's in reserve, she should have been scuttled by now.

So you're saying we need to introduce hydroponics to subs? I kind of like this idea

We only have a few ports capable of harboring a carrier. Bremington is one of the few that has facilities for upkeep of mothballed nuke subs and conventionally powered carriers.

Jesus, you literally dont know what youre talking about.

There's been more than one Ranger and the one that is in pic was retired in the mid 90s. Launched mid 50s. The older was built before ww2.

Meanwhile for the price of a few Macedonian hackers, Russia hacked the US election and got a literal retard elected president.

We don't need people to fear us. We just kindly ask them to leaf us alone.

Didn't Russia just develop a hypersonic cruise missile that can easily destroy aircraft carriers?

Maybe this isn't such a good idea.

what do you think your ducky tub is going to do?

Kitty Hawk, NC is called "The Birthplace of Flight".

Fitting name for an AIRCRAFT carrier.

literally kys right now fucking retarded leaf. Our ships protect your worthless ass too.

How many millions of dollars does it take to construct and keep them running? How many thousands of dollars does it take to sink them? In a world war they are not efficient. Carriers right now are just a means for america to wave their dick around.

Thats how Pearl harbor happened

If Canada had anything we wanted we would have annexed it in 1899.

sink gloriously

If I put a banana in the exhaust of a ferrari it'll blow up. Egro ferraris are a waste of money. -the post.

You really don't understand much do you user?

God fucking damn it.

There are two types of vessels in the modern navy. Submarines and targets.

>How many millions of dollars does it take to construct and keep them running?

try billions

Conventional War among developed countries, and even countries like China and India, is outdated. Wars will be fought in the market, achievements, and economic prosperity.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_of_the_Royal_Canadian_Navy
Nice navy.

this made my day user

>tfw no modern equivalent to Jane's Fleet Command (CMANO doesn't count)

>Really the russian idea is to launch about 50 of those missles and overwhelm the anti missle defenses
And where do they launch these from? The ship that goes nowhere without tugboats?

bla bla bla try to to get rid of teh eu navy.

not scared loosers.

>Carriers are not efficient in a world war.

How many fucking dummies are there on this message board? Have you ever heard of WW2?? Yeah, we were able to strike at the Japanese homeland because our carriers played a huge part in crippling their fleet.

You're worse than the fucking retard who said Kitty Hawk was a stupid name for an aircraft carrier.

Why do they all look different? Why pay some military architect to and naval engineer a fortune to design it again each time? Why not use the same design for a decade and then upgrade if necessary?

You do know that anti-air/missile defence for these carriers and their accompanying vessels are as modern as it gets. Any potential threat to a carrier can be met, and eliminated hundreds of miles out.

Different classes.

>Implying globalization won't lead to the next holy war

Oh tip top kek, user. I wish I was as optimistic as you.

>Wars will be fought in achievements

Whatever you're smoking, I want some.

Technology has advanced a lot since ww2. You cant expect to keep using the same strategies when new tools of war are constantly being made available.

Why do we need aircraft carriers? Everything is within spitting distance in Europe.

We let you have a navy? lol

Yeah but why?

Tech changes, needs/plans and roles are different.

Okay, so what do you propose as an alternative since you know more about military history and tactics than anyone else?

Prove me wrong

Wars of conventional battle are outdated today. Each country has no need to invade another major country, thus most military hardware is pointless. The way to defeat someone now, because it's next to impossible to defeat either America's, China's, or Russia's armies m, is to battle them economically

Prove me wrong

Both China and Russia have hypersonic cruise missiles that are designed to fly less than 30ft above the waters surface.

They are specifically designed to destroy our navy.

Hence the huge push for the Zumwalt's equipped with lasers and railguns.

not invest so much resources into relics of the past.

>How many thousands of dollars does it take to sink them?
quora.com/Why-are-aircraft-carriers-virtually-unsinkable

Aircraft carriers are pretty much unsinkable.


>Carriers right now are just a means for america to wave their dick around.
They're pretty much a mobile army. One carrier group could take out most countries in the world in less than a day. Obvious exceptions being G8 countries. Well, G7, Canada would be easy.

They want to put the entire US airforce on these easy hitting targets so they merely have to hit them. Then the US will lose it's strongest weapon.. air superiority. The commies have co-opted the entire US military... people have no idea.

You haven't proven or even made a case on how they are relics of the past aside, the absurd claim a 5000 dollar missile can sink one, and that's not even correct.
Fun fact, the last carrier the US sunk, we did blasting it with our own stuff to see how much abuse they take. Now those carriers are all retired, and we still haven't released the info. So if shit we retireds armor is still top secret, do you think they are gonna tell us what they can and can't do, or more so cut back on armor as the size, crew, and costs all went up?

We dont need one, by default you protect our interests since we're so deeply intertwined with one another.

>They want to put the entire US airforce on these easy hitting targets
>US airforce
At least put some effort in.

>PARCELLED

>spend billions on a giant floating target
>gets knocked out by a $500,000 missile
>thousands of Americans die
please keep building this shit. it'll make it all the sweeter when Russia and China BTFO you idiots

AFAIK carriers are becoming obsolete due to missiles.

Here's a novel thought:

>Aliens come tomorrow and vaporize every ship and sub in the US NAVY, active and reserve
>Any remaining bases/facilities and personel get folded into the US Coast Guard cuz raisins
>What nations could defeat the Coast Guard? Which ones could the Coast Guards defeat?

I mean, does they even really have anything bigger than small arms and ship mounted lmgs? What's their biggest boat and what is it even capable of?

Billions of dollars, paid for with debt, while the country crumbles. That ain't power.

This is why i always laugh at the retards that are afraid China or Russia would ever invade us. They would never make it past 7th and 3rd fleet. China only has 2 aircraft carriers they bought off Russia and their pilots have barely even figured out how to land jets on them.

What about carriers in WWII?

>Carrier groups don't have missile defense
>the thing that wants to fire missiles isn't already blown up by the carrier's jets
funny joke

>we still haven't released the info
Data remains classified for so long only if it is a resounding success or is an abysmal failure.

Which do you think is more likely in this case?

Even more so with the push from China and Russia to make better missiles to defeat our navy?

Still waiting for the American Empire

You've yet to prove this could happen, or would work. Even your implying it's so easy would mean they would already have done it and by your claim, "crippled" us.
This is also why carriers don't go alone. You have an entire fleet to cover their ass with an air wing as well.
Let's pretend for a second, someone is shooting at us
CAP
ECM
AA
and if all that shit fails, they will literally, steam into the missile and take the hit. That's what escorts do.
You are acting like they are these big dumb whales waiting to be hit over the head. It's far from.

carriers are so 1980s and would serve no purpose in a real war

There is no known way with current armaments to counter some of the hypersonic cruise missiles Russia has, China is quickly catching up as well.

How do you stop a missile flying at mach 2.3 flying less than 30ft from the waters surface?

cant stop 100 missiles. amerifats would probably collapse trying to press the button to even stop 1

The former, for the simple reason, it's retired shit. If indeed it was easy to sink, perfect reason to let that info out and fuel the industrial war machine and make more new armors etc.

It's not like we aren't building new toys as well and Russia, USSR or not does seem to have a pretty long history about lying with their toys, and the MIG25 is a perfect example how stupid that is to do. We were so scared, we built the F-15.

Opps.

Unfortunately Air-Craft carriers along with Main Battle Tanks are considered old hat, and military thinkers would prefer not to have large, slow, resource hungry money drains as impressive as they are, luckily with the progression of laser weapons, rail systems, ballistic missiles and sub fleets, if any war does break out we should be able to hold our own until the political decisions have done boom and the correct military choice's kick in.

Physiological military is good during peace, but practically is what you need for war.
But you can lose all the battles except the last one.

these are useless. time to work on spaceships, gramps

Jamming and spoofing, also it's incorrect there's "no way" to stop it. CIWS can angle down and track very well. But that's cutting it real close.

CVX class carriers on the horizon. stealf tech an sheeeeiiiiiit.

Can't the Americans just deploy their super insta-counter hypersonic cruise missiles to blow up whatever the Russians/Chinese are launching theirs from?

But you can, look how many targets a single ship can track, and look how many ships there are in a CSG.