What’s wrong with that?

And that was built by the Russians...

Let’s not forget that the last Russian naval victory was the one they hired John Paul Jones to manage for them.

He will bounce you to the grey soon!

There would be if we put out a long term contract requirement.

That’s why you need rich friends with nuclear submarines. And oh, pay your NATO treaty obligated 2% if GDP on defense spending.

Three ice breakers, which we need for what exactly?

Or they can just go over the ice like thinking men.

Exactly correct.

Ice breakers are completely useless from a military perspective. They are sitting ducks for submarines,who can hear them and their ice crunch from hundreds of miles away, and anti sub weapons are useless through the ice.

Excellent point, and the larger issue is, does the Antarctic mission really need to be supported by a military icebreaker with a one-off mission?

It’s a far better idea than the Air Force shotgun net idea.

It will need to be a very stout rope.

Sitting duck.....I see what you did there

I know that, but hitting something a few hundred feet away? With a shotgun?

What the hell.... I can go through a box of shot shells trying to drop a single duck. How the hell is axshotgun going to be effective against something “weighing 20 pounds and flying at 1200 feet”

That is a big flounder

Then again, it is not an aircraft carrier if there are no aircraft.....

How are we obligated to come to Ukraine’s defense?

Then again, we should worry about the Hamas behemoth