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December 13, 2009 - 2:56 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2009-12-14 15:37:51

@ 74 hoskins

Ok, so, we lost ten carriers in WW2 and zero battleships. Granted, we don’t anticipate having an opponent like a modern IJN, but losing even a fraction of that number of our existing capital ships would be devastating.

Especially since it doesn’t take much to mission kill a carrier.

Especially since Chinese subs apparently don’t have much difficulty surfacing within torpedo-launching distance of a carrier battle group undetected. (cf: 2007 Kitty Hawk incident)

I’m just sayin’