Originally Posted by Cows getting bigger
Aircraft carriers carry aircraft to defend the carrier which needs defending because it carries aircraft which defend the .........
(Yes, I know it's old school but how much of the UK's future carrier capability is still a self-licking lollipop?)
I don't think that's all our carriers (or anyone else's) were doing during CORPORATE, GRANBY, BOLTON, DENY FLIGHT, DELIBERATE FORCE, PALLISER, TELIC, HERRICK, ELLAMY, etc., or are doing during INHERENT RESOLVE, do you? They're not just floating airfields performing reruns of the Battle of Britain, you know.
