It is only useful against non-nuclear weapons owning nations though.
It is also of no help in Central Asia for obvious reasons.
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ALAMO wrote:Carrier is a gunboat of a new era ...
You can use it against the locals with bows&arrows ...
Hardly work for anything else![]()
No bow&arrows natives around the corner, that could be stolen off the resources ...
A superpower like North Korea and Iran are bringing the might of a carrier to null.
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ALAMO wrote:Sure, as long as you are to keep it 1500km away from ashore.
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Sure, as long as you are to keep it 1500km away from ashore.
You mean 2000-2500km.
ALAMO wrote:Sure, as long as you are to keep it 1500km away from ashore.
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https://twitter.com/Strike_Flanker/status/1409552280928624648/photo/1
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As long as those would be used for colonial-style gunboat diplomacy.
Russian or Chinese carriers would not care much about the on-land opponents, as none of them possess now antiship assets reaching further than 300km.
That makes them simply useless in the theatres we may consider as potentially important, leaving the ones that are protected by the natives with no serious anti-ship capabilities.
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GarryB wrote:
The thing is that Kinzhal and Zircon and Kh-32 are not wonder weapons thousands of tons and hundreds of metres long which they might have one or two of.
Russian_Patriot_ wrote:The model of the nuclear aircraft carrier of the project 11430E Lamantin (Eng: Manatee), developed by JSC "Nevsky PKB" at the International Naval Salon MVMS-2021 in Saint Petersburg.
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thegopnik wrote: modernizing an old ass carrier? .
The Zircon is a big advance. Compared to the P-800 with the same dimensions, it has twice the range and almost 4 times the speed. The American fleet would have problems intercepting the P-800, let alone Zircon or Kinzhal.Not long ago, the SM-6 did not even intercept a straight MRBM flying on a predictable trajectory.
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JohninMK wrote:Back in the day...
JohninMK wrote:Back in the day
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kumbor wrote:Nevertheless, Kuznetsov has never been considered successful carrier by Russians themselves. She was rather a prototype for later vessels that were never to be built, with all flaws familiar for a prototype vessel.
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