• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    The same Royal Navy that can’t build usable ships but did build 2 horribly expensive and useless carriers which can be used basically only in gunboat diplomacy and are breaking often?

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      2 years ago

      can be used basically only in gunboat diplomacy

      Is that not the point of aircraft carriers to begin with?

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        2 years ago

        Depend when. I think up until 80’s they were completely viable weapons for long range combat, but the rocketry and submarine tech advanced after that made them less and less usable. I think hypersonic missiles sended them to museum for the forseeable future. And so, while the smaller ASW carriers still have a lot of defensive usage, the huge carriers can now only be gunboats for terrorising countries that cannot defend themselves.