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I'm shocked that the ship can maneuver quickly enough to 1) affect the outcome of a missile attack, 2) create enough force to toss a plane off the side.
I would have figured the protocol is to have the CIWS and interceptor launchers at an appropriate angle to intercept the attack prior to the missiles being launched.
They can, nuclear carriers can absolutely move:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Q8P049-2Q
That's incredible. Thanks for sharing!
It is indeed, but I think your question still stands non? That doesn't look like it's fast enough to avoid a missile?
Not all missiles are guided, and even guidance isn’t perfect.
without guidance they're just rockets, not missiles
Wow, that's very impressive. Almost a 45 degree tilt?
the benefit of electric power that makes it way better than anything
That carrier is using steam powered propellers. Luckily the steam is "pushed" by a couple of large nuclear reactors, so it's got plenty of juice.
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Those are STEAM POWERED? good lord that's more oomph than I was expecting I was thinking we had some giant ass motors creating some crazy ass electromagnatisim
100% steam. Steam makes the electricity, locomotion, desalination and the plane catapults go on that class of carrier. The reactors and salt water make the various types of steam used in the various systems.
Limitless water is a neat hack when you couple it with limitless heat.
I'm amaze how advance everything is but we're still using steam like the people from the industrial revolution. The only difference is instead of coal were using nuclear reaction. I do wonder why we're not using some kind passive way instead through mechanical way to generate electricity.
I've said it before, and I will say it again. We're gonna use a Dyson Swarm to boil water.......
There is no form factor of power generation that could match nuclear on something as "small" and dense as an aircraft carrier.
Solar is a no go due to just surface area and the challenges of salt water. The only consistent things left are petrol and nuclear, and of the two, nuclear is better in every way but cost.
It is wacky that "hot rock make steam. Steam makes turbine go" is how like 95% of all civilization exists, but man when we stumbled on a winner in the 1800s, we just went all in on it.
My favorite Minecraft builds.
It is possible the story has been slightly embellished and the Houthis downed it in a different way.
An actual A2A kill with a Shahed on an F18 would be way bigger news. As would a hit on the carrier. What else could be the way it happened?
There have been previous reports of aircraft carriers "hitting a rock" and having to go for repairs.
Maybe it is true. But the US no doubt would like to keep up the illusion that it can intercept all missiles with easy and its personell is in no danger.
Remember how the Biden admin kept a US soldier dying to the "Gaza pier" secret for a long time.
And this is when we remind ourselves that the US hasn't fought an enemy that can shoot back with anything other than guns in decades. They have late-stage Israel syndrome.
Don't ignore the fact those guys were hit with a load of ballistic and cruise missiles recently and did alright. Not to mention drones and rocket arty on the regular.
I do agree the US are wildly overspending in the era of disposable unmanned-everything though, and this one incident isn't gonna change their ways.
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I just hope both sides have fun ☺️I just hope both sides kill each other and leave the civilians be.