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dutch777

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1. I predict that the US carrier will be able to launch and sustain 10x the aircraft of the others and
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 07:32 PM
Jan 2022

...be able to do so for a week or more. I appreciate our NATO allies, I really do, but the fact is we have the only REAL Navy and REAL Air Force and as far as I have seen from my military service in the late 1970s until today the rest try for the sake of national honor but in fact always fail when tested when they try to project force beyond their home borders and bases. If you look at air forces sent to the middle east and elsewhere in last 20 years, they send a squadron of 6 aircraft and in less than a week they are lucky if they can launch one fully combat capable aircraft. The Brits may be the one exception to this.

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