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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
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so we're supposed to have a dozen to their one? do you know how much one carrier costs?
how big will theirs be? will it be nuke capabble, which means years of operation before it needs fueling? doubt it.
did you look at what i posted above regarding world spending on the military? did you notice that most of the spending is by us, then china and russia, followed by two of our biggest allies? that france and england each keep pace with russia.
is that feasible for us to continue? did you see our portion of gdp towards military, compared to the others? did you see who was involved in the top 15? how many of those are considered a threat to us? i don't mean, we don't see eye to eye on everything threat-i mean a real, actual, could attack any moment threat.
i'll tell you how many. none.
we could cut our spending in half, and still outspend and outdo any of the others. they don't have a single working carrier, still. that rehashed thing i linked to earlier-not a threat.
they'll have to ramp up training before they can land on a carrier during the day, let alone at night.
then there's keeping one at sea. they can't stay out constantly, which is why we have so many. some are out, some are in, some are being re-fit.
and with harriers, we actually can have more planes in more areas, because those can take off and land where regular jets can't.
hey, our military is an amazing thing, with the coolest toys ever. but many do we pay thru the nose. we could cut it by a third, which is a huge amount of money, and still not have a worry.