PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - USS Gerald R Ford - CVN 78 - Commissioned Today
Old 23rd Jul 2017, 21:21
  #8 (permalink)  
Planet Basher
 
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Midlands
Posts: 128
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Originally Posted by sandiego89
IIRC the last carrier damaged in combat was @1945. How many sorties and combat sorties have been launched from carriers since then? Yes I realize there are many systems designed to take out a carrier, and things could get very nasty in a peer conflict, but I would hardly call carriers sitting ducks.
Correct me if I am wrong but is it easy not to get damaged if you spend most of that time attacking countries that don't have the means of reponding.
Planet Basher is offline