Oh you were a guest, lucky you... but the people in charge were YES-MEN who were only for looking for early promotions, hence, why they came to this sorry ass ship.
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so you think a direct hit from a granit or klub to a carrier? even a yakhont or moskit with a tactical nuke can destroy a CBVG.
BTW where would that battle? a battle btwn russians and americans? or just russian hardware used by inferior armies?
yeah! it is easy to say. the U.S. military has shown that their training & equipment is superior to Russians. it has been proven in battle. also you underestimate the size & damage control ablity of Aircraft carriers. these ships are compartmented and armored. 1 missile could not sink them, unless is was a nuke. but with several squadrons of strike aircraft, A airborne early warning Hawkeye, and a battle group. your cruiser would be getting blasted by Harpoon missiles.
That's much easier to say then to do. 1st you would have to find the sub. American subs are very quiet. Russian sonar isn't very sensitive. to get cruisers, you have to again get past fighters, & Missiles. you would have to be very lucky to get past the super hornets, let alone the Standard missiles, you'd be lucky if you got close enough to be engaged by point defenses. oh, and by the way, Arleigh Burke aegis destroyers are stealthy, you can't hit what you can't see.
the missile would have to get past fighters, Aegis cruisers, aegis destroyers, & seawiz & seasparrow point defenses to get to the carrier. oh & by the way that's if a Los Angeles or Seawolf sub hasn't already sunk the Granit's launch platform. it's called layered defenses, it works.
Yeah the officers and pilots had it good i was in vfa 195 2002 through 2004 on the kitty hawk but its all good i always thought they would be you Know studly guys after the movie topgun but thats not the case there they kind of average,dorky,assholes but i guess your like that when your an avaitor but i had fun doing my time and serving my country
I served on CV63 USS Shitty Kitty for WESPAC cruise in 1977-78. Was an AE5 Flightline troubleshooter in VA-192 Golden Dragons on A7E,s. Sure sucked at the time but wouldn't change the experience for anything. Still get goosebumps every time I see a carrier Cat shot. Can still smell the turnin-and-burnin JP5. Still wear my flight deck jersey sometimes. Carriers and carrier dudes ROCK, especially Airwing personell..don't miss the green balogna or bug juice tho...
My dad served on that ship. Michael Coffman he was enlsted its weird becuase you all talk about it like itsa Tourist attraction but to me its a family symbol.
well, when you were a guest they sure did make it out to be cool but they sure did keep you away from the negative parts of this ship, I totally understand people do it for their country I was one of those people just the public relation representatives sure do know how to create a nice picture for the clueless landlubbers
I really hate this ship but remember most of the OFFICERS who came up top to film these videos from forward lookout who aimlessly had nothing to do so they would film with their digital video cameras while I stood there in the rain hating life
Spankykit, you cant hold the planes down that good coz if something happens and the planes need to be in the air, it would take to long to undo chains. The planes are worth millions and if the ship went down america would suffer badly
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