Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Report: U.S. aircraft
carriers could become ineffective
Unlike the naval battles,
big battle ships with powerful cannons played no significant roles during WWII.
Instead, what played a decisive role in the Pacific theater where the largest
scale of naval battles took place in history was aircraft carriers which
carried numbers of aircraft.
Towards the end of the
last century, aircraft carriers were the symbol of the US military power. During
The Persian Gulf War in 1991, six U.S. aircraft carriers were on active duty in
the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Persian Gulf and launched thousands of
sorties. When China threatened Taiwan in 1996, two US aircraft carriers were deployed
straight into Taiwan Strait and ceased the crisis. Aircraft carriers have been
the backbone of US oversea military operations.
In the meantime the
technologies and situations have been changing, too. There are more precise and
longer range missiles and unmanned aircraft to name a few. Also, there seem to
be more domestic or inter-region conflicts that require different tools and
deployment to deal with. So what will the future of the naval icons be?
Enjoy reading and
thinking about historical transition of navy vessels.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/03/politics/aircraft-carriers-report-future/index.html
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