Large-scale construction of aircraft carriers in the United States has become in this country a kind of fetish and mania of salvation. In the eyes of American citizens, these impressive warships are associated with the country's military might.
However, experts note that such faith can play a cruel joke with its adepts. For example, the loss of even one of these symbols of national pride can have a catastrophic psychological effect on America and on its multi-ethnic population. Well, as a result, psychologists predict the United States mass despondency and the decline of public support for foreign policy on the escalation of regional conflicts around the world.
American aircraft carriers class "Nimitz" in height reach 40 meters above the waterline, in length - more than 300 meters, and their displacement is 100 thousand tons. These are not just ships, they are real floating cities - or mobile airfields.
Approximately 80 aircraft, as well as 7,000 sailors, marines and pilots, live aboard an American aircraft carrier, which, thanks to its nuclear reactor, is able to navigate the world's oceans with amazing speed. One such aircraft carrier costs about $ 5 billion. And the content of each wing of such a giant in itself results in a very impressive figure.
The value of the lives of the crew and the value of such an aircraft carrier for America’s national power is simply impossible to measure.
At the moment, in the USA, the shores of 11 such carriers of national power are guarding far from America. By the way, their total cost is 80% of the country's annual budget.
The myth of aircraft carriers says that in times of crisis, the first question that the US president asks himself is where are the aircraft carriers.
However, there is a small nuance here, and as can be seen from the US claims to the Russian rearmament program, which does not give rest to US military analysts. The two modest powers — Russia and China — are working day and night on new anti-ship missiles that are designed to inexpensively sink American power in the ocean. And from distances that far exceed the range of the most powerful missiles fired from aircraft of the longest range, capable of rising from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
In turn, aircraft carriers are always accompanied by a strike group of warships that are capable of striking submarines, airplanes, and other objects.
But here there is a correction. US military experts point out that with the most favorable scenario, an escort group can knock down a total of about 450 missiles launched onto an aircraft carrier. While China is capable of releasing up to 600 rockets simultaneously from a distance of more than one and a half thousand kilometers.
Therefore, now in the media around the world regularly appear messages like: "before launching missiles on an American aircraft carrier, the enemy’s military must think a thousand times, because after such a blow, all the fury of the US armed forces will fall upon them." It must be assumed that the US military is trying to persuade the likely adversary to the idea that aircraft carriers are untouchable and that the enemy must be more polite to them.
Well, or so calm themselves.
