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[quote user="Iceman_c27"] Hehehe...now there is nothing for you to worry about that at all!A aircraft carrier travels as a 'group' with 2 nuclear hunter/killer subs, 3 destroyers, one Aegis cruiser, support vessels and most of them have over 100 aircraft with all capabilities flying 24 hour patrols in shifts and F-14's can hit targets over 100 miles out and that's plus their crusing range of over 600 miles.  Most invaders get blown out of the sky before they even know what happened.  Nothing can get close to it even if you try.  Let's say you are so lucky that you got through all that and at the last minute, you will still be blasted to pieces by the Phanlax defence system. And at 40+ knots top speed and 30+ knots crusing speed, it can outrun most civilian or commercial vessels anyway.[quote user="Safety Valve"] Im more worried about some Iranian taking out a Carrier with 5000 aboard than a military train getting highjacked.[/quote][/quote]Recently a ballsy China Captian surfaced his attack sub within 5 miles of a Carrier in a firing position and said "Peek-a-boo" or something to that effect. That was when a Carrier Battle Group was on exercises recently in the Pacific.Just because we have all that hardware in place does not mean the Carrier is safe. The Navy goes into Harms way.Yes we have all that gold plated equiptment but it is men who use the local conditions existing in a battlespace to best advantage usually gets a chance at the brass ring. Remember Scapa Flow and the sinking of the Royal Oak back in history.
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