Smaller Aircraft Carriers

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Is it time to bite the bullet and also produce smaller aircraft carriers with the larger ones? We can build new small conventional aircraft carriers from LHD marine troop carriers. We may get at least three for the price of one Ford Class carrier. Perhaps building a total of 6 Ford Class Carriers and 18 smaller carriers will get us into the next reset of military hardware. We can use advanced technology on the smaller ones also.

Bad idea. Too expensive. Those smaller carriers still have to have crews and air wing personnel and escorts. And those things will not scale down comparatively just because the carriers are smaller.

I believe they will just have less of it. There are currently a couple of ideas. One is to use the Marine Carriers with renovations and remodeling of the hull. the other is to scale down the Ford Carrier class. The Marine carriers use conventional fuel.

The LHA variant is primarily for aviation with the F-35B.

 

[Dayton3]

Is it time to bite the bullet and also produce smaller aircraft carriers with the larger ones? We can build new small conventional aircraft carriers from LHD marine troop carriers. We may get at least three for the price of one Ford Class carrier. Perhaps building a total of 6 Ford Class Carriers and 18 smaller carriers will get us into the next reset of military hardware. We can use advanced technology on the smaller ones also.

Bad idea. Too expensive. Those smaller carriers still have to have crews and air wing personnel and escorts. And those things will not scale down comparatively just because the carriers are smaller.

I believe they will just have less of it. There are currently a couple of ideas. One is to use the Marine Carriers with renovations and remodeling of the hull. the other is to scale down the Ford Carrier class. The Marine carriers use conventional fuel.

The LHA variant is primarily for aviation with the F-35B.

Rockwell is right. Carrier based aircraft were used extensively in the early years of the conflict in Afghanistan. Especially the "bombcat" versions of the F-14D.

 

[DudleySmith]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

 

[Dayton3]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

Bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Though I'm certainly no fan of Joe Biden.

 

[DudleySmith]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

Bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Though I'm certainly no fan of Joe Biden.

Nope. He's already at work on that agenda. The ME will suddenly flare up again, and Biden is going to assist the Iranian nuclear missile program, just for starters. Who is he backing in Syria?

 

[Dayton3]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

Bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Though I'm certainly no fan of Joe Biden.

Nope. He's already at work on that agenda. The ME will suddenly flare up again, and Biden is going to assist the Iranian nuclear missile program, just for starters. Who is he backing in Syria?

I'll be frank. I follow international geo politics closely and consider myself pretty well educated but at this point I'm not even close to sure as to whom the U.S. should be backing in Syria.

 

[harmonica]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

Bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Though I'm certainly no fan of Joe Biden.

Nope. He's already at work on that agenda. The ME will suddenly flare up again, and Biden is going to assist the Iranian nuclear missile program, just for starters. Who is he backing in Syria?

I'll be frank. I follow international geo politics closely and consider myself pretty well educated but at this point I'm not even close to sure as to whom the U.S. should be backing in Syria.

all the more reason to get out of there

 

[DudleySmith]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

Bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Though I'm certainly no fan of Joe Biden.

Nope. He's already at work on that agenda. The ME will suddenly flare up again, and Biden is going to assist the Iranian nuclear missile program, just for starters. Who is he backing in Syria?

I'll be frank. I follow international geo politics closely and consider myself pretty well educated but at this point I'm not even close to sure as to whom the U.S. should be backing in Syria.

He's backing the PPK, a Communist Kurdish group.

 

[Dayton3]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

Bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Though I'm certainly no fan of Joe Biden.

Nope. He's already at work on that agenda. The ME will suddenly flare up again, and Biden is going to assist the Iranian nuclear missile program, just for starters. Who is he backing in Syria?

I'll be frank. I follow international geo politics closely and consider myself pretty well educated but at this point I'm not even close to sure as to whom the U.S. should be backing in Syria.

He's backing the PPK, a Communist Kurdish group.

There are Kurds who are actually "communist"?

 

[DudleySmith]

With Biden in office, they will now be turned on our former allies and out in the service of Peking, so it's a pointless argument now; it's no longer an American military.

Bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Though I'm certainly no fan of Joe Biden.

Nope. He's already at work on that agenda. The ME will suddenly flare up again, and Biden is going to assist the Iranian nuclear missile program, just for starters. Who is he backing in Syria?

I'll be frank. I follow international geo politics closely and consider myself pretty well educated but at this point I'm not even close to sure as to whom the U.S. should be backing in Syria.

He's backing the PPK, a Communist Kurdish group.

There are Kurds who are actually "communist"?

Indeed. And they make up about a third of the Kurdish insurgents and population. They're large enough to b one of the reasons people who are otherwise all for creating a Kurdish state are reluctant to actually put that in motion due to the possibility it would just be starting yet another civil war in the region.

Kurdistan Workers' Party - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The PKK was founded in November 1978 in the village of Fis (near Lice), by a group of Kurdish students led by Abdullah Öcalan. Öcalan was elected the General Secretary and Kemal Pir, Cemîl Bayik, and Mazlum Doğan were part of the Central Committee.[10][11] It announced its existence the following year.[12] The PKK's ideology was originally a fusion of revolutionary socialism and Marxism-Leninism with Kurdish nationalism, seeking the foundation of an independent communist Kurdistan. The initial reasons given by the PKK for this were the oppression of Kurds in Turkey and under capitalism.[13][14] At this time, the use of the Kurdish language, dress, folklore, and names were banned by the Turkish state,[15] including the words "Kurds" and "Kurdistan".[16] Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in public and private life.[17] Many who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned.[18] The PKK was formed as part of a growing discontent over the suppression of Turkey's Kurds, in an effort to establish linguistic, cultural, and political rights for the Kurdish minority.[19]

Biden loves commies, and Iranian Mullahs, too.