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The FUBAR USN needs ABFs and ABCs that deploy SFB and SFA SWARMS to dominate the naval 720 degree battlespace with a SSC--and NOT exchange missile direct hits like Star Trek aka TIN CAN VPFX.
www.combatreform.org/battleships.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_cruiser
In 1980, there was a proposed “Interdiction Assault Ship” (IAS) conversion for the Iowa-class battleships that would have removed the aft main gun turret. This would free up space for a V-shaped ramped flight deck (the base of the V would have been on the ship's stern, while each leg of the V would extend forward, so that planes taking off would fly past the ship's exhaust stacks and conning tower), while a new hangar would be added with 2 elevators, which would support up to 12 Boeing AV-8B Harrier II jump-jets. These aviation facilities could also support helicopters, SEAL teams and up to 500 Marines for an air assault. In the empty space between the V flight deck would be up to 320 missile silos accommodating a mixture of Tomahawk land attack missiles, ASROC anti-submarine rockets and Standard surface-to-air missiles. The existing 5-inch gun turrets would be replaced with 155-millimeter howitzers for naval gunfire support. These modifications would have required significant time and funding to achieve so it was never carried out, furthermore the Department of Defense and the Navy wanted the Iowa battleships reactivated as quickly as possible.[3]
All Soviet aircraft carriers were built at the Nikolayev Shipyard in the Ukrainian SSR. Their classification as aircraft cruisers is very important for the purposes of international law, as it allows them to transit the Turkish Straits on their way into the Mediterranean Sea. Under the Montreux Convention, aircraft carriers heavier than 15,000 tons may not pass through the Straits. However, there is no tonnage limit on capital ships operated by Black Sea Powers.[4] Turkey has always allowed Soviet and Russian aviation cruisers to transit the Straits, and no other signatory to the Montreux Convention has challenged the ships' classification.[5]
USN Seaplane Jet Fighters + Aircraft Battle Cruisers:
http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Arts/Art33128.htm
http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/HI/HI-26/79-1.jpg
Note the 2-seat, J79 turbojet engined "SeaDart" with 1x ski--not the failed 2x--listening LockMartSky? They knew this, too in the past!
www.combatreform.org/seaplanefighters.htm
John 3:16
Semper Airborne!
James Bond is REAL
