[image] The Admirals Lobby Professional discussions covering topics including Foreign Policy, Maritime Strategy, Emerging Technology, and Military Affairs. The extreme aviation enthusiasts, beginning with Curtiss himself, made the fundamental mistake of thin…

Naval aircraft carriers are obsolete in modern warfare between highly developed nations. Land based missiles made the aircraft carrier obsolete once missiles launched from land gained the capability to fly a further distance than the carriers planes, which is one reason most countries do not bother …

I fully concur. Those aircraft carrier dinosaurs are sitting ducks, no match for the modern missile warfare.

Are you sure? I would think they do the job USA needs from them, pretty good. It’s a big floating fuck you to other nations. Who wants to mess with a nation who can burn money as a hobby? The logical solution for a non nuclear war would be kinetic strikes from space, but until someone starts WW3 I …

[image] Frigate Helge Ingstad Design - Damage Survivability The logical solution for a non nuclear war would be kinetic strikes from space, Tanstaafl, eh?

I have 360 sci-fi books on my Kindle, so yes maybe I picked up the idea from Heinlein. Mhm we need a book thread.

Not to mention Thuktun Flisithy and their Foot from Footfall, Lucifer’s Hammer etc.

Quiet comforting to think that you’re at sea in five and a half acres of target that can be seen from space and you can run but you can’t hide. The film “On the Beach” resonates in my memory where the last people living on Earth were the crew of a nuclear submarine and their prognosis wasn’t good.

[image] Hogsnort: Quiet comforting to think that you’re at sea in five and a half acres of target [IMG_3608] Yes and think about it that navy ships and especially an aircraft carrier, within that relatively small confined space, is fully packed with all kinds of explosive munitions, bombs, …

According to studies that have been done the accident rate on aircraft carriers is much lower then would be expected given the operation. Studies of safety of operations on carriers was the basis for a lot of Karl Weick’s work on HROs. Aircraft Carrier Operations At Sea: The Challenges of High Re…

The number of U.S. sailors and Marines that have died in and around aircraft carriers is shocking — 8,500 from 1948 to 1988. More than 12,000 aircraft were lost. That number includes the aircraft and airmen lost in combat, but combat losses are tiny compared to the number lost in just attempting to …

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Yes it’s interesting, I haven’t closed the loop here but the books in this thread are related in that it’s how I see how crews interact with each other and the ship.

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