3. TIL a Chinese business man bought a non-functional aircraft carrier from Ukraine...

TIL a Chinese business man bought a non-functional aircraft carrier from Ukraine, allegedly to use it as a floating hotel/casino. It took more than 4 years to tow it to China. Later the Chinese government bought and modernised the carrier, making it its only aircraft carrier its navy owns today.

You also run into the problem with fire control with both ships. The Ford isn't so bad but the older Nimitz has more aircraft than it can direct. Sure you can give them general directions and basic orders like "kill everything in this area" but coordinating all of that is a nightmare. This is one area the Queen Elizabeth II does not have an issue with.

Dude.

STOP MAKING SHIT UP

First of all, no modern fucking air battle plan has anything with telling us to "fly over here and kill everything in this area"

And it is anything but a fucking nightmare - the US has a slick system to launch, recover, and operate aircraft around the aircraft carrier. We've been doing it for decades, and can recover aircraft at specific times, at specific intervals, all without even needing a radio.

Controlling aircraft in battle?

Are you serious?

First of all, the US E-2's provide an airborne radar and feed to our ships and aircraft. They can and do direct our air battle. In addition, our AEGIS Cruisers and Destroyers are all integrated into the air wing too - want to have the cruiser find a target and send people to intercept? Done.

The US carrier air wing is as big as it is because it's designed to fight autonomously and do it all. It brings its own electronic warfare aircraft (Growler), its own AWACS and AIC (E-2's), its own interdictors and forward air controller (2 seat Super Hornets), its own strike fighter aircraft (Hornets/Super Hornet/F-35), tankers (Super Hornets), and its own anti-submarine aircraft (MH-60R's).

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