The Art of War: Carrier Warfare
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As Sun Tzu wrote in “The Art of War:” “You can’t project power outside your immediate region without having Aircraft carriers”
No, that's a line from Carl von Clausewitz.
@@PerfectSense77 You're both wrong, it was Alfred Thayar Mahan, and the quote goes, "Whoever rules the waves with an aircraft carrier rules the world." 🤣
Ah, funny to see all of you misattribute a classic line from “Zapp Brannigan’s Big Book of War”.
Pretty sure those are lyrics from a Led Zeppelin song.
@@jackturner214 they are so uneducated
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting....or just send an Aircraft Carrier" - Sun Tzu
And a bunch of crab Rangoon
Sun tzu said that! And id say he knows a little more about aircraft carriers than you do _pal_ because he invented it!
And then he perfected it so that no living man can best him in the ring of honor
When a US Super Carrier arrives, it becomes the largest Airforce in the region.
It has really happened to the United States.
As a young man, I lived for a while in Toulon. This was 1992-3. I remember taking the boat across the bay and seeing the aircraft carrier parked in the port. There were other ships, including American ones that would visit. But the aircraft carrier was always the most eye-catching.
I saw the Charles-de-Gaulle in Toulon last year ))
“A quick hello from the USS Gerald R Fuck Off,” made me laugh so damn hard.
I really enjoyed this one. I was an Electronic Warfare tech (anti-ship missile defense guy) on the USS Kitty Hawk and the future of carrier warfare is something that gets discussed a lot in my circles, hypersonic missiles and all that. Leaving out the classified bits, I can say that the US has fun stuff that should keep carriers relevant for some time.
Yeah, I think until we get to ships like Stargate, then carriers are going to be relevant for a very, very long time.
The unclassified brief: A carrier is large. The ocean is fuскіng massive. Good luck finding a carrier task force before your entire air fleet and rocket force gets wiped off the map.
That China wants more carriers tells me they are here to stay for some more time
you guys couldn't even stop a Korean fishing boat let alone hypersonic missiles, drones and torpedos.😅
@@p4p4juju wtf are talking about?
The power of the aircraft carrier isn't purely about its damage potential. The aircraft it launches can only carry comparatively small missiles compared to surface-based platforms. If it's purely about sheer destructive power from afar, destroyers packed to the gills with missiles would theoretically reign supreme. Rather, it's the carrier's (or rather its aircraft's) versatility that makes it so useful. Aside from destroying enemy targets, the aircraft can surveil the area, contest the sky against the enemy's aircraft, protect ground forces, etc.
Incidentally, I feel carriers are probably going to become even more accessible. Previously, certain navies would develop helicopter carriers that are smaller and cheaper to operate than one that launches jets. With the advances seen in UAVs, I suspect drone carriers will become even more of a thing. Instead of risking expensive, multi-million dollar jets and pilots that are expensive and time-consuming to train, drone carriers could launch UAVs to do the same job but without risking the pilot and at a price tag more comparable with the aforementioned ballistic missiles compared to the the jets they are replacing. Except unlike ballistic missiles, the UAVs aren't necessarily making a one-way journey.
Small fighter drone holding carriers will def become a thing
Important to note: A destroyer has to RTB when its VLS launchers run dry. An aircraft carrier can sustain aerial bombardment and domination for weeks
Carriers could also become more popular as VTOL/STOVL aircraft become more accessible.
@@Mournful3ch0Good point matey. Aircraft carriers are far more versatile than destroyers.
@@Erik_Ice_FangIndeed, we already see this in the proliferation of so called helicopter carriers / light carriers that can sipport squadrons of F-35.
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Real crackheads pull up on the plug tho 😂😂😂
This applies to every carrier operated today - EXCEPT Russias ancient
08:59 - Admiral Kusnetsov!
😂😂
Mordors only aircraft carrier is so excellent. It has to have a tugboat sailing along with it :).
No! The ACC is pushing the tug...with a very stiff rope
Go Mordor! 😂 Orks go figure!
A Russian carrier strike group consists of: 1 Moskva converted to submarine, 14 tug boats with AK's pointing over the railing for extra danger, 5 roughly corvette sized missile ships with radars from the 80s, 2 random small commercial freighters that run power lines to the air craft carrier and, obviously, 1 air craft carrier. Russia's only problem, currently, is figuring out how to build a floating dry dock for the air craft carrier that isn't so large the 14 tug boats can't move it.
sauron doesnt deserve to becompared to putin. 1. sauron doesnt look like dobby after drowning and 2. sauron had a plan
This may be a simplistic way to look at it, but it’s a lot easier to put a new plane on an aircraft carrier then it is to put a new gun on a battleship. So I think as long as aircraft carriers can be defended and given new aircraft with new capabilities, the ability to have a Landing strip anywhere you need it will be valuable
The single caveat to that is what happened with the jet age: at some point your old carrrier, while functionally fine, can't launch/recover/support new, bigger, heavier planes and you'll need a new CV
im pretty sure new fighter jets are more expensive and take much longer to build than installing a new gun
@@justinryanvalencia05 And naval guns are expensive and take a long time to build. Build time is irrelevant since you don't remove a piece of equipment without a replacement ready.
To replace a gun you need dock time and cranes and precision, to replace planes you fly off the old and land the new.
I believe Henry Kissinger once said: "the modern aircraft carrier is not a military asset - it's 100,000 tons of diplomacy".
The HMS Hermes photograph for the Falkland Islands War is the wrong one - the picture is of the HMS Hermes that was the first British carrier designed from the keel up as a carrier (1920). The HMS Hermes in 1982 was a Centaur-class carrier.
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I’m a widowed female just about to turn 60… why am I addicted to this channel???
The irresistible appeal of Simon Whistler.
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@@vickiewallace415 While Simon is an excellent presenter, just be aware that the script writers run a churn rate so high that quite a few mistakes slip through. None of them are even acquainted with the fields they write scripts for, and the time they have to read the wikipedia article is limited. A rude classification of the research behind each episode would label it as "shallow at best". But if your intention is to just watch the show and promptly forget everything but the broadest conclusions, then I guess it's ok :P
@vickiewallace415 I'm a single 36yr old woman and I LOVE this channel. Before I found it though I'd recently gotten very interested in a few different wars, specifically WW1 and WW2 along with some delving into the Korean war and Vietnam. I wish like hell my history teachers had made history interesting bc it certainly is. It was just taught in such a boring way that I didn't enjoy it until I sought it out myself as an adult. Same thing with politics. I've found I have such a deep interest in both subjects and am trying to learn all I can.
I served in the US Navy 1993-1999. I was on a Destroyer. We were always forward deployed across the globe when we weren't training or working with Customs and the Coast Guard. We only worked with the Enterprise a few times.
I'm reminded of the scene from Star Trek 4:
Chekov: Admiral, we have found the nuclear wessle.
Kirk (over communicator): Well done, team two.
Chekov: And Admiral… it is the Enterprise.
If you find yourself in Southern California visit the USS Midway in San Diego. It was commissioned just after WWII and served all the way through the gulf war. They still have the control room set up with all the gulf war maps and attack plans which is very interesting and a sweet collection of aircraft on the deck. Highly recommended
Actually was one of the first security officers in the midway when it became a museum, was awe inspiring it served from when my dad was born to when I was
Mobile Air strips are just exceptionally useful as an offensive weapon as it allows you to have an airfield off the bat with limited ability to retaliate pull offline (due to their mobility), and can provide command and control near the front. Paired with an amphibious Assault ship, you have an expeditionary warfighighting capability, meaning you can potentially fight any coast on earth.
And fundamentally, obsolescence is not about whether or not a platform is vulnerable. That comes whether you want it or not in almost any form eventually, but instead about the capability it gives you. And this gives you power projection across the sea.
Billy Mitchell was almost court-martialed for insubordination after accusing Army and Navy leaders of an "almost treasonable administration of the national defense" for investing in warships/battleships.
My grandfather was on the USS Saratoga (CVA-60) from the late 50s to the early 60s. I'm not sure of the actual dates. I grew up with pictures and models of Her throughout their house. My grandfather was so proud of her.
She was stationed here in Jacksonville, Florida in the 1990s. I toured her twice in the Boy Scouts. Staggering how big she is
My first Navy cruise way back in the day was a WestPac/IO cruise with the USS Ranger Task Force on a support ship. Awesome ships, those huge bird farms. I tell my friends who have no concept of the size of an aircraft carrier to imagine the Empire State building laying on its side. Cheers....
While probably the biggest warship to ever be out there it's crazy to think that even the US super carriers are dwarfed by a lot of civilian transport/cargo ships. Some of the super tankers and container transports are like 3-4x bigger than them.
@@UNSCSpartan043 interestingly enough, the bigger and heavier a ship is, the better it moves in the water
My brother served aboard the USS George H. W. Bush for 6 years, and to truly see one of our modern supercarriers up close is awe inspiring. People cannot fathom how massive these ships are in reality. After they returned from deployment we got to explore the ship, they took us out like 20 miles and were launching aircraft and performing sonic booms at eye level with the flight deck while the crowds of family of the sailors sat on the flight deck and watched. I had earmuffs on, I was sticking my fingers in my ear too, and those sonic booms are still to this day the loudest sound I have ever heard in my life.
Carrier: "I rule the seas, omniscient and untouchable!"
Enemy attack submarine: *taps it on shoulder*
Friendly attack submarine: *taps the tapper on the shoulder*
Enemy ballistic missile submarine: "Boy I am glad the attack subs are all busy nowhere near me, messing with that carrier, while I destroy their whole fleet, then homeland!"
Undeclared orbital nuclear weapons platforms: "Did someone say 'Destroy someone's homeland? Maybe every homeland ! 😃"
Yup. There are only two kinds of ships: submarines and targets. 😆
USS Lake Champlain : did anyone said Korean fishing boat?
20:34 is gold
"Stop quoting me! I never said any of these things!" ~ Sun Tzu
You showed multiple clips of the docked USS Lexington, I've toured this acc and was a magnificent ship. It was the last acc in us operation with a wooden flight deck
In terms of museum ships she’s pretty top notch. Highly recommend anyone in the area visit her.
Aircraft carriers would be abbreviated as "CV" carrier fixed wing.
@@revejmalThe 'V' standing for Volaire (spelling?), French word for flight. Because they chose a French word for reasons tm
@@TheSchultinatorA lot of fancy words in English have French origins.
@@graceneilitz7661 True, but why the US Navy in the 1920s decided to use a French word eludes me.
For the Russian aircraft carrier you forgot it also carry other boat to pull it when the ship break 😂😂😂
The carrier has also played a big role in disaster relief and humanitarian aid missions.
America had an fighter aircraft advantage at the Battle of Midway? That's news to me. The F4F Wildcat was heavy and underpowered compared to the Zero. Yes, the Wildcats were better armored and had self sealing fuel tanks, but putting it up against the zero was like fighting a rapier with a large club. The zero was faster and far more maneuverable, both of which are the lifeblood of any dogfight. The main reason US fighters were able to give Japanese fighters issues during the battle was because of the debut of the Thach Weave. The maneuvers confused the Kido Butai's combat air patrol so much that they overpursued the Widlcats, which left their carriers unprotected when Wade McClusky's dive bombers showed up.
The Gerald R *BEEP* bit made me laugh hard
What was that about?
Nevermind. It too me a few.
"Ayo, aircraft carriers are dope af"
-Sun Tzu, "Art of War"
I was an electrician on the USS Ronald Reagan for 4 years in Japan. I really enjoyed my experience but I think I’ll stick to land for the rest of my time.
I can't even leave my house for more than a week before I need to head back.
I'm sure the Gerald Ford Class carrier have extra buoyancy to make sure it doesn't keel over by accident. Another excellent episode.
They're called water wings.
I be trying to listen to him while I go to sleep and then he’s got these frickin drums bangin after his intro I’m like wtf
thanks for keeping me educated while im working nights y'all. Cheers
Quick answer to the question if carriers will ever be obsolete:
similar to to the tank, as long as there is a role to a doctrinal problem that only it can solve, it stays.
aircraft carriers are needed, because what it can do for airpower is incredibly usefull.
a carrier can both transport and support a number of systems and platforms, that otherwise need a (potentially custom) runway somewhere and have to be transported there anyway.
it is basically a mobile staging ground and runway complete with the logistics to support the aircraft.
i am a pencil-pusher, a burocrat if you want to say, and the cliche is that we like to stop spending on anything we might write of as obsolete.
contrary, we are perfectly capable and willing to finance about everything, as long as it actually has any use.
There was the old INS Vikrant which liberated Bangladesh and the new one which is a step towards india having a blue water navy, 2 carriers already in the indian armada.
The UK's two carriers look slick AF. Definitely the best looking carriers.
Why not a third or fourth aircraft carriers and even more DDG's FFG'S and more Astute class SSN'S I know that if a world war ever happens God hope not the small amount of Royal Navy warships before it's too late you guys listen You've got to ramp up the amount of aircraft carriers In the Falklands you guys used container ships like the poor Atlantic Conveyor which who would do a s o r t a jiggery pokery for the F-35s Because they were are bigger than the Sea Harrier and they had wider wings and a lot room which who would have to make more of those containers more wider than the Atlantic Conveyor had during the tragic last voyage to the Falklands You've got to get more WHAM BAM BOOM BOOMS aboard them And to hell with the British Treasury having their bowels in a uproar about it tell 'em to bugger off!
looks mean almost nothing in its field
My dad served on the USS Lexington during the mid-60s, while being stationed in Spain, Norway, Iceland, and the US.
I dont think we'll ever see the end of the carrier. The ability of force projection from having a air wing, just makes them an ideal ship.
In theory if you had a plain that could go from one side of the globe to the other in a minimal time you wouldn't need advanced base, but until then
modern carriers are command centers for conflicts, not ship killers or carrier killers. Unless something weird happens carrier on carrier conflict will stay a relic of ww2. But even in future conflicts where long range fighters, drones, hypersonic missiles, and satellite dropped munitions; the carrier will remain an important piece. It instantly sets up a command base everywhere it goes with the ability to launch and control all other future weaponry. That's why nations are investing in them. They're massive city sized command centers which can do far more for a war than just engage in combat itself.
I usually like even before watching! Excellent material!
A town on water, with plenty of firepower.
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Honestly, I would like to see a video about the different bomber types.
I’m really interested what the difference and origins are, as I don’t really know the difference between all of them.
Naval bombers or just bombers in aviation in general?? Today, most nations have multi-role bombers that fulfill the needs of most capabilities for combat.
Thanks for having some F-14s in the pictures, such a beautiful aircraft.
beautiful aircraft to all but her maintenance crew
@@PancakeBoi The pretty ones always are.
July 21st, 1921. The first aerial bombing tests on the Pre-Dreadnaught USS Iowa, Cruiser SMS Frankfurt, and the Dreadnaught SMS Ostfriesland. It marked the beginning of the end for battleships and the rise of the aircraft carrier.
Let’s not forget that while the US has 11 Super Carriers, we also have 8 Amphibious Assault Ships that operate as a helicopter carrier with a squadron of the Marine variant of the F-35
Can't get enough of these
Aircraft carriers are as well used for good purposes such as humanitarian aid as well. No other ship can transport the amount of equipment like a carrier anywhere in the world within roughly 24 hours give or take 10 or so. Also our nuclear powered carriers can literally be plugged into a city power grid and power almost an entire city. Its not all about war and they will never be outdated. Even if in the future we're using drones everywhere they'll still need carriers.
Simon just said something that got me thinking. We aren't taking minimal losses if we lose carrier pilots. We don't have more. We need to mandate that more pilots across other branches become carrier qualified. Just so we have some backfill other than reserves
The threat of hypersonic missiles is greatly overrated. Unless it is truly massive or carrying a nuclear warhead, it simply can't do enough damage to sink one. It's main threats are hitting the reactor, the actual ammunition store, or fuel containers for the planes - all relatively small targets and extremely well protected within the carrier.
I would have thought the kinetic energy of traveling at mach 10 would be enough to sink anything. That is assuming it is accurately controllable enough to hit a target at that speed.
Thank you for the very interesting episode as usual. All of your channels put out amazing content. I certainly recommend for anyone who hasn't yet checked them out to do so.
Kind of understateing the range of a carrier. . . F-16 operational range = 860/2 = 430 kilometers + 100-400km so about 500-800 km at least
Aircraft range + weapons range.
Another Game Changer Invented by the British. 🇬🇧
As a former AO onboard USS Carl Vinson CVN70 it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Spent my time in 60 degree magazines in the gulf so we were the only people wearing jackets 😂
I was lucky on USS Horne, a Belnap Class Cruiser CG 30. My berthing was a converted magazine and we had to sleep w/ 2 or 3 blankets 😂
Did you get a hole-in-one though?
I’ve always wanted to ask someone who has been on board a carrier; are Chefs the most loved people on board?
IYAOYAS 💣 🫡
Really I'm using the early and the later Nimitz class CVNs in several of Science Fiction Novels Like the Final Countdown Only in this case it isn't going back to 1941 E T Phone Home would you believe it? And i'm using the warships which who was either of the 1980s or 1990s Or what the hell the year 2000 or even later NOW maybe
Aircraft carriers take gunboat diplomacy to the next dimension.
Correction: the "scout planes" listed for the Hornet were the same planes as the bombers, just organized into a different squadron.
Simon should do a video on the Seabees who continually rebuilt air strips in the Pacific after repeated bombings by the Japanese.
They eventually started affixing .50 cal anti-aircraft guns on their bulldozers so they could fight back if the planes came to bomb the field while they were working.
Even if they can't return to the aircraft carrier.....!!
MOST not ALL aircraft have in flight refueling capacity so if they can call in the military flying gas station and just keep refilling till they can return or find a friendly runway
I'm sorry, what kind of idea was that when Argentina invaded the Falklands? I missed that word. 😂
Before even watching this I just want to say that when I was in high school I stayed a extra year for grade 13. This was to just take courses I liked and finish up my community hour. I took a grade 12 advanced history course and got into a fiery argument with my teacher. Me being a history buff I was offended by the fact that she told us we would not be studying the battle of the Coral Sea, she also stated the battle of the Coral Sea was not "historically significant". I argued that it indeed was. She stated it was not even worth mentioning. Do I berated her in front of the whole class and explained how it changed our naval warfare was fought and it was the first time in history that a naval battle had occurred without either side having visual contact. They simply used carrier-based aircraft to attack each. It was a pentacle moment in history and the advancement of warfare at sea. Anyways she attempted to reprimand me for questioning her intelligence and embarrassing her she actually attempted to go to the principal. I simply told them my point of view and he basically agreed I was not in trouble at all it was great... Lol 🤣
An old career of mansplaining awaits, young man!
@@zamnodorszk7898 call it whatever you want. Ignorant and stupid people have to be set right in terms of history. That's about all I do it with with everything else to each their own.
She was right. It's pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It's only with a specific view to naval warfare and it's advancement that it gains real relevance. You sound like a condescending, pedantic know it all and no one likes those.
@@canadianbacon9819 She was wrong on two counts. They points you made and the fact that you were questioning her knowledge, not her intelligence.
@@recoil53 true enough and it's more or less because I believed that my fellow classmates were being robbed of valuable knowledge... respect 🙏
How did Simon and his three year old humour not even flinch at reading “growler”. Oh it’s not epic blaze is it…😂
To those who don’t know Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov when Simon said it was shit? Well… yeah that’s not biased. It is one of the worst boats to ever exist, and it literally has to have a tugboat move it around so it can be “operational” (it can only move around the Black Sea, if it were to go further, it may not be able to come back)
The irony that the Type 002 and the Indian carriers are notably far far better.
Goes to show what happens when your either broke or when the corruption of your government is so awful nothing gets done. The Admiral Kuznetsov isn't even worth taking as a warprize likely due to the fact its obviously a hazard. Its a piece of junk not even worth saving and if there was a law that was about rights for machines I'd be slapping Russia for horrific abuse for a old ship that clearly needs to be retired and sunk out of sheer mercy.
next gen Carrier will be small and filled to be brim with Drones
Since you started with basic rules of fights, how about basic rules of war? Like the Geneva Conventions?
You mean the "Geneva Suggestions"? I don't know if any of Simons writers want to delve into any of that. It's just sixty some pages of loopholes. Like most of the big name treaties and conventions, once you actually get into them and read them they're actually pretty badly written.
For an example, in the Hague Conventions, hollowpoint rounds are illegal in war.. If that war is between "Civilized nations". If you're fighting an uncivilized nation, who cares.
I'd watch an entire episode of Simon roasting the Admiral Kuznetsov.
Somebody should do a supercut of all the things he's said about the Kuznetsov.
The role of an Aircraft Carrier in terms of Power Projection sounds very similar to the original purpose and role of the Cruiser of which in the age of sail a Cruiser is defined as any naval warship that had the necessary weaponry and endurance to say like go to a distant enemy nation's colony and being able to threaten it while also having enough endurance to sustain it and the Aircraft Carrier somewhat invokes that role
In the Age of Sail they would have been called "frigates".
@@recoil53 Well you do have a point but in reality almost any warship of that era could fullfill a "Cruiser" role since the term itself is not a defined class but a mission for any warship
Awesome!
I am actually looking for more information regarding Carrier Warfare during the Vietnam war.
I don't know if it's still in print, but there was a book titled Over the Beach, which choronicles carrier air operations during three periods of the war from the deck of the USS Oriskany, an Essex class carrier. I found it quite interesting, especially since I had an uncle who flew an A-6 from the Oriskany during the war.
The "are carriers obsolete" conversation reminds me of the "tanks are obsolete" one. No.
Sure they're more vulnerable but military gear is only obsolete when either there is soemthibg that can perform their function better or if their role no longer exists. Infantry men have been dying since the first time humans engaged in organized violence. They aren't obsolete. Fighters and bombers and scout planes get shot down all the time. Instead of waving our hands and saying any of these things are obsolete we just developed new tactics for their use and methods to make them more survivable.
That's what's gonna happen with carriers.
1:00 Close.
The first step is preparing yourself mentally to take as many lives as needed to secure your well-being. After that, it's all just TTPs.
The admiral kuznetsov is so broken, even your UA-cam video on it couldn’t stay up.
Aircraft carriers might be "outdated" but they're outdated in the same way a tank is. Until something comes along that can do the same job better (for carriers - mobile global force projection), they're here to stay.
Outdated in the same way a revolver is too
@@rejvaik00 or the helicopter.
@@avroarchitect1793 or the bolt action
Very good way of putting it.
They are still necessarily even though they are a liability.
@@retsaMinnavoiG so long as nothing else better comes along and fills the tactical, doctrinal, and strategic necessities the carrier fills. It will remain in service in ever newer designs. Much like the helicopter still does today despite being among the worst for losses and soldiers killed, and being extremely vulnerable. All I see is the carrier no longer being an overpowered military asset and has now joined everything else in the realm of capability and counter capability. Sword and Shield.
An aircraft full of drones changes a lot of things.
Aircraft carriers won't be obsolete, they'll just get smaller and pilots will be replaced by drones.
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I feel like the size of the Ford Carrier isn't accurately imagined by the average person, even when the stats are given. Each one basically has enough people living in then to form a small city.
18:47 "Modern carriers are among the safest places for a person to be in the world." - A very poor choice of words. Yes, no one can touch you, but the deck is actually one of the most dangerous working places in the world. So many things can go wrong...
another great video warographics amazing how close Argentina nearly won the falklands with a first strike launched from there aircraft carrier and how close it was nearly sunk by a royal navy sub
what?? i thought the Kusnetsov was currently not ready for deployment and/or out of service... 😂.
It was an informative and wonderful introduction video about the decisive importance of aircraft carriers in fleet defensive and offensive operations. Thank you for sharing with appreciation..recent Folkland 🇫🇰 conflict. It ...participate British aircraft carriers and its survival turned tides ... against Argentina 🇦🇷 Air Force and navy completely...All other naval pieces organized beneath whole fleet proving their's special capabilities obviously..besides( aircraft carriers as vertebrate backbones )...since WW2 other naval pieces exceptional of aircraft carriers...haven't sufficient capabilities to launching successfully assaults against global powerful house countries. The USA is always the best owner of complete modern fleets
if an aircraft carrier arms race is starting the US has already won, it's oldest carrier could lead a strike force against virtually any possible enemy navy and would come out unharmed
I’ll worry about a hypersonic missile when I see one actually hit a ship. Not to mention a very fast ship surrounded by ships protecting it
HMS Gotland disagrees with that you can't hit back without having a carrier yourself.
1:49: ⚓ Aircraft carriers are powerful naval platforms that allow for long-range strikes while minimizing the risk of being hit.
3:57: 💪 Aircraft carriers are powerful assets that allow the owner to dominate the seas and project military strength worldwide.
6:48: ✈ Aircraft carriers are crucial assets for militaries, providing both defensive and offensive capabilities.
10:29: ✈ Aircraft carriers evolved over time and became formidable in naval combat, with the Battle of the Coral Sea being the first major carrier engagement.
13:55: 💥 The Battle of Midway was a decisive blow against Japan, resulting in the sinking of all four of their Fleet carriers and crippling their Imperial Navy.
17:19: 🚢 Aircraft carriers play a significant role in modern naval strategy, serving as deterrent weapons rather than engaging in direct conflict.
20:00: 🚢 Aircraft carriers are used for coastal defense, international reputation, and protecting airfields during combat, but their relevance is being questioned.
23:11: 🌍 The increasing influence of China in East Asia and the importance of aircraft carriers for other nations.
Recap by Tammy AI
Excellent video 📹
80 years ago, two of the greatest carrier fleets clashed.
We know the American fleet was immense, the Japanese fleet was big (almost)
I was stationed aboard the USS Gerald R Ford & it’s something special! Wish I could go see it again someday
Confucious said "man at sea shall be known as semen" 🤣🤣
Rock/paper/scissors. Submarines with long-range hypersonic cruise missles that can hug the carriers horizon
Given that the Nimitz class carriers had a maximum capacity for 90 aircraft it's silly to say that the newest Ford class (which is a bit larger than Nimitz) can carry 75 aircraft.. 75 is the number of aircraft the Ford class will usually have on board when deployed but the full war time capacity is over 90 aircraft.. The problem is that US carriers never sail with the full complement of aircraft since the end of the Cold War and the reason is - the lack of aircraft... During the 1980s US Navy had 14 aircraft carriers and could fill them all up with aircraft. Today we have 11 carriers (mind you all are of Nimitz and Ford class which are bigger than some of the 80s carriers) but they sail with 60-75 aircraft.. Lack of aircraft is the result of a few of the Navy's missteps. First is the cancellation of the first stealth aircraft for the Navy in 1991 which was supposed to replace Vikings and some other attack aircraft. Next were the problems with the F-35 program which was delayed and therefore the C model started to join the fleet too late. Third is US Navy's fascination with the F-18. And last but not least is the military budget which is simply too small to for all the stuff Navy needs to execute the national security policy.
Well done! Cogent and insightful summary. Asymmetric warfare and tech will be the challenge to aircraft carriers in the future (demise of wooden boats and the battleship the historical lesson)
The sub warfare landscape just got real intense.
In mass scale industrial warfare the country that can build warships faster than the enemy can destroy them wins.
The US seems to have forgotten this.
Because it is completely impossible to do that. You can not build a modern ship and train a good crew quicker than I can build a bunch of missile especially easy to make sub sonic stealth ones like jasm and lrasm.( the usa can build a thousand per year and that isn't even including other missile like tomahawk or the future prsm) I can easily destroy any ship before it is close to being fully built or while it is resuppling in port. No has "forgotten" what you said they just understand the situation better
Great Episode! Look forward to these weekly! Thanks for the new episodes. Tell Simon to quit bitching about working hard. There’s a War going on!
I liked the video. One small blooper is about 24 minutes in, concerning the Falklands War. The picture of the carrier shown was the first Hermes carrier commissioned into the RN in 1925, later sunk by the Japanese in 1942.
The RN carrier Hermes which fought in the Falklands war was commissioned in 1959. (warning. I am an av-geek who at age 13 had practically memorized "Janes Fighting Ships") .
good for you Pat!
Ford-class supercarriers are a modern-day excessive investment in an old concept much like the Yamato-class was for the IJN in its day. It gobbles up inordinate quantities of resources even as it motivates its adversary to search for its Achilles heel. Hypersonic Missiles are a bargain in comparison and pretty hard to stop. Allied excercises have demonstrated their vulnerability to submarines. Even Chinese submarines have improved in quality dramatically in the last few years. Cheaper Drone carriers are coming, robots learn faster and may be more expendable.
The carriers are also used to help areas after a natural disaster and have done so multiple. I get it the channel is Warographics so military uses are the focus.
USS Gerald R. Fuck you was genius 😂
a new idea for a mini series for this channel cover the war factories that built the arms for war. in modern war its not battles alone that win wars its the factories that win the wars
I always wanted to see a carrier in person, but I don't live anywhere near a major port which is kind of a bummer. I do believe I had a relative who used to work on a flight deck on a carrier, I couldn't tell you which one but at least that is what I've heard.
I was on a Tarawa class. Thought she was big, until i parked on the carrier pier. Ronnie Ron and The Nimmy were moored bow to bow. Nothing like seeing two CVNs on one pier. It is pretty amazing.