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It will take a LOT more than a lucky shot to sink a carrier.
What happens if Iran gets one lucky shot and sinks a US Aircraftcarrier?
There are only two kinds of ships...Submarines and Targets.
Keith
CIWS & SeaRam
When everything else has failed throw a WALL of depleted Uranium at it at 3000-4500 rpm (my son who has served on three ships with it, says faster)
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Allah help Iran if they start a shooting war. If Israel didn't turn the entire country into a dust bowl then we would.
When was the last carrier sunk? USS Yorktown, maybe the HMS Ark Royal, around 70 years ago. I am not saying it is impossible, its a very real possibility, but since WWII we haven't faced any militaries or navies capable of such a feat. I think maybe Britain sunk an Argentina Carrier in the falklands war, but unless we are fighting other huge navies, I don't think it would happen. There are anti-shipping missiles, that would be Iran's best shot probably, several simultaneously to overpower a super carriers missile defense system, and any surrounding ships. Usually super-carriers are surrounded by a screen of destroyers to also help prevent it from happening and to protect against submarines.
Our best bet for having our own carriers sunk since WWII would of been during the Cold War against Russia, since Russia was the only opposing navy with the capability to do it.
edit: I did a little more research and thought this was the ultimate irony, the last US carrier sunk was in 1945 and called the USS Bismarck. Talk about a bad name for naval ships. Apparently we lost a whole lot more carriers than yorktown and hornet in WWII.
Apparently Iran doesn't understand who they are dealing with. They can sink all the surface ships they want. We have enough firepower aboard each of our 18 SSBN's, 10 of which patrol the Atlantic, to take out every building in Iran and every neighboring country, and nobody (not even us) knows exactly where those submarines are at any given moment. Ever heard the term "glass parking lot"?
Do you play silent hunter 5 too? Thats one of the quotes when loading the game up.