They already used the crew as cannon fodder in Ukraine. A ship without a crew is bsically worthless.
I mean, on one hand, yes; on the other hand, if the ship wasn’t already in massive disrepair, it would be much cheaper to train even an entire crew than scrap the ship.
That is another reason, yes.
Also that the whole reason it is what it is was to smuggle a carrier through Bosphorus.
I liked the takeoff ramp
RIP Admiral Kuznetsov, you’ll always be on fire in my heart
Rust in peace
Been in repairs since 2018, and they already know they can’t defend it from attacks so it’s likely not worth anything to keep investing into it.
It was built in what is now Ukraine, and even the shipyard shut down back in 2021.
Anyone with advanced hypersonic missiles may very well be able to take carriers out of commission fairly easily now. China claims they can possibly strip them of their outer coatings with a laser and maybe get them out of the air, but thr U.S. has played it close to the chest as far as I know and not given any info on their resources of taking them down, they just say you can’t.
What is now Ukraine also used to be Ukraine when the boat was built. It was the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of many republics in the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics.
We almost certainly have a defense against it and no one is making them in huge numbers anyway.
It would cost around $800 million to make 40 of them. If someone shot 2 a piece at each of our aircraft carriers…
New Carriers are around $120 billion before operation costs. So that’s $2.4 trillion is losses off a maybe $2 billion dollar investment by whichever country.
I’d say aircraft carriers are a dying breed
What does history tell us about unproven “superweapons that change the battlefield forever”?
One just has to look at the destruction predicted to occur from area bombing pre-WW2 and the damage that actually occured
Well that’s also because we lied so goddamn much about how accurate our bombing ability was that not even the actual bombardier knew.
I’d say aircraft carriers are a dying breed
So, I’m hearing that it’s time to go back to super heavy battleships.
I have good returns if you also wager down on ramming bows if you’re interested
Why, oh cruel world, why?!
