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^Keep in mind that one nuclear tipped torpedo will completely destroy an entire carrier group. Aircraft carriers are designed for WWII type strategy. In a real war with the USA, they would become irrelevant.
And your mention of nuclear tipped torpedoes reflects a 1950's reality.
^Keep in mind that one nuclear tipped torpedo will completely destroy an entire carrier group. Aircraft carriers are designed for WWII type strategy. In a real war with the USA, they would become irrelevant.
Already been mentioned, but nuclear torpedoes went out of vogue in the early 60s, and torpedoes don't have explosive tips, they have a warhead section that is roughly a quarter of the weapon's length and is near the midpoint. The nose of a torpedo is the transducer, and right behind the xducer is the guidance/sonar electronics.
Now, with modern torpedoes, a carrier is sinkable no doubt (need a couple shots depending on the weapons and how well the carrier does damage control), but no carrier in the US fleet travels without at least one fast attack submarine keeping an eye on it, at least from a distance. Point being, an enemy torpedo platform wouldn't ever get within 20 miles of an aircraft carrier if the Navy didn't want them to.
And carriers do not fight naval battles. They are air support platforms. A naval battle with the US would be a festival of US torpedo launches and the annihilation of whatever fleet was put against us.
So, no one else except the US wants to go out of their way to instigate a war.
Maybe the United States could learn from that.
No one except the US is expected to be world policeman and go anywhere in the world to help when a natural disaster strikes either. Maybe the US could learn from that too and let the rest of the world take care of itself. Without a large military the US wouldn't be able to help people either, something no one else seems very willing to do.
Most likely nation to go to war with the USA?
The USA.
The Coming Civil War
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The inevitable clash will be orchestrated in such a fashion so that the only “logical” conclusion is to dispense with the U.S. Constitution (already bypassed by 82 years of “Emergency Rules”), the Articles of Confederation (ignored already), and the Declaration of Independence (source for the “republican form of government”).
In its place, “they” will fully implement the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of America... a full service, perpetually bankrupt, “benevolent” totalitarian police state.
In the glorious socialist paradise everything not mandatory, shall be taxed, licensed, regulated or forbidden. And don’t forget your government issued photo I.D. (Internal passport) to be shown on demand to your public servants.
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Every country that's ever gone to war with us, or us with them, has won ! We always end up rebuilding their economy and infrastructure and they end up more prosperous than they were before the war.
Every country that's ever gone to war with us, or us with them, has won ! We always end up rebuilding their economy and infrastructure and they end up more prosperous than they were before the war.
Touche' Japan, Germany, Grand Fenwick, all are extremely successful.
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