Double Zero wrote:
would the 'Black Hawk Down' incident have happened if there was a US or USMC carrier handy ?
I'm not sure this really goes anywhere. I have actually done some proper research on this action, looking at how it changed SOF's CSAR policy, not just seen the film, and I offer the following comments:
If a nation with eleven carrier battle-groups can't have a carrier 'handy', what hope do we have with one or two?
Secondly, I don't see how carrier-based air could help in recovering a captured pilot in an african city. Carriers are useful, but they're not magic.
Thirdly, why on earth would you need a carrier to support a unit that was operating out of
an airport, and had been deployed and sustained almost exclusively by airlift?