So I was just reading up on this ship and Im a little confused. She had a $57 million refit completed in 2012 and it was supposed to extend the service life of the ship 6-8 years. that would mean 2018-2020. The article makes it sound like its been chugging along on bailing wire and spit since the 70's. Doesn’t…

More objecting to a bad comparison in the article than the system itself. Stack it up against a Phalanx/CRAM or a RIM-116, not a damn Patriot.

Sure. Just remember that every single war the US has fought since WWII is because the previous great empires (UK, France, Japan) collapsed.

Let’s not overlook SLBMs. A first strike might take out land based missiles but not the subs. The potential for a retaliatory strike by SLBMs is enough to make any country think twice about a first strike.

Author completely ignored existence (on both sides) of secure second strike capability -SLBMs desplyed on submarines at sea...

Dude, this stuff might be news to us but it islmost certainly old news to Russia. State secrets keep things secret from your population not your opponents.

“The Gulf War conflicts occurred within and around the country of Iraq during the early 1990s. Aircraft carriers were vital to the U.S. offensive against Saddam Hussein’s regime. Six U.S. aircraft carriers were on active duty in the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Persian Gulf during the operations. The carriers…

Hey, he managed to shoehorn Trumps name in the article at least 4 or 5 times. He did his job.

why didnt you complain about Obama spending

“The last time a aircraft carrier has been used in battle was in World War II”

Wow. Username is very relevant.

Politics? I suppose my opining over this author’s narrative is political. That wasn’t the purpose of my post though. It was more to address that this author excluded the carrier’s contributions to various battles over the past 70+ years.

Exactly, the Navy can park a carrier group off of any landmass and control 400 or so miles of it with projected air power. We can’t have an entire military built off cruise missiles.

We do not build carriers to fight naval battles against China and Russia. We build carriers to project air power anywhere in the world, at any time, whether we have accessible air bases with mission permission or not. That is what carriers have been used for since World War II and will continue to be used for.

Your definition of “used in battle” is fairly exclusionary of the last 70+ years of carrier history, and their air-wing’s contributions to the Korean, Vietnam, Cold, and Gulf wars... not to mention GWOT. But don’t let that get in the way of your narrative.

Sorry, who regards the T-90 as “the world’s top tank” apart from Russian trolls? (I note with interest that the Wiki for the T-90 has been got at by the Russians).

Wait: “Widely regarded as the world’s top tank, the T-90".

Why not use some logic instead of cut and paste. If he was that stupid, how did he beat Hilary as well as Jeb Bush. He proved every single media outlet and pretty much every single poll wrong. How did he do that being stupid? He beat the smartest political people in America. How does a stupid person do that?

that comment is so far from reality id love to know what youre on

Ahh, the good old days.