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  1. Other nations operating supercarriers

    With the significant changes coming in HVM technology over the next few years I would say that any carrier WITHOUT at least four AGEIS style escorts sailing in a box/diamond formation, and a couple of ASW detailed ships with current generation tails working the area, along with at least one...
  2. Other nations operating supercarriers

    Not really. The need to become a force projection, deep water player, requires a completely different sort of escort vessel, and far more of them, than would pre-exist. A good example of this is the PLAN, they would be starting from a clean sheet of paper. A less obvious, but equally valid...
  3. Other nations operating supercarriers

    The 75,000 ton carrier will still set you back $8 Billion dollars (the current estimate for the new UK decks) with the total cost of $25 Billion per Group ($27B if you project a 5th Generation fighter/bomber), so the extra $10B will only pay for one deck and the airwing, no escorts included...
  4. Other nations operating supercarriers

    Ten years is a bit ambitious. They would need to be cutting steel right now to make that timeline. Carriers take time to build; Newport News Shipyard, which has been building Nimitz class ships since the late '60's still takes 5.5 years from laying the keel to commissioning. A lead ship, in a...
  5. Other nations operating supercarriers

    Carrier Battle Groups are almost unimaginably expensive to build & operate. You also need more than one, to keep one at sea all the time you really need three (one at sea, one refitting, one preparing to go on patrol). That means three multi-billion dollar assets (CVN $8-$11 Billion, 2-4 CG @...
  6. AH Challenge: Royal Navy Reigns Supreme

    You have to find a way to butterfly away the United States, or at least confine it to 1840 borders. Once you have a U.S. with two Oceans the USN IS going to grow, even under isolationists, simply to keep everyone else at arm's length.
  7. Japan chooses not to attack Pearl Harbour. What do americans do?

    I'm fairly sure that they can't. That is the problem with the scenario. Getting to where the Japanese wanted to go and avoiding conflict with the USN is damned near impossible. It would also be tactically insane to leave the United States, a country that DOES bear you ill will, astride your...
  8. Japan chooses not to attack Pearl Harbour. What do americans do?

    As noted, the big problem was the Philippines. The American bases there represented a huge, very creditable, threat to Japanese ambitions. Given a few months the U.S. could have put enough resources into the Islands that the area would have been invulnerable. (As was, IOTL, the primary factor...
  9. WWI & WWII: Britain Sides with Germany

    More possible, at least in 1914, was British neutrality. Had the Germans stayed out of Belgium there is a decent chance that the UK would have chosen to sit WW I out (in which case it would have been the Franco-German war of 1914). Had the Kaiser not wanted his fleet of pretty toy boats...
  10. Japanese Victory (?)

    This has been addressed in depth here in the past. IJN doctrine stressed the "Decisive Battle" above all else; anything that did not prepare/shape the battlefield for this action was effectively ignored. IJN officers who, in the run-up to the war, suggested that the sub force would be of use in...
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