Along with the problems you highlight in the beginning, strategic bombers are also too slow to outrun interceptor aircraft, to large and bulky to avoid SAMs and Radar, extremely resource and manpower heavy, fuel guzzlers, and a plethora of other problems.
Plus, carriers don’t even just have to worry about shore launched missiles, as for example almost every mission undertaken by a carrier task force during the mid to late Cold War wouldn’t be complete without a part of the mission being, “Then the carrier group pissed themselves, because a Mirage F-1 or a MiG-29 suddenly appeared and launched Exocet missiles from 180 km away”.
The US still thinks it’s the 1940s, and the generation of elites who came to power after the collapse of the Soviet Union have drunk their own koolaid. They actually believe the post war mythology that the US built up about itself and its war machine.
They are dangerously delusional and the fact that their beliefs are in constant conflict with reality is something they cannot understand and that only makes them more angry. They feel the empire weakening but they are unable to stop it.
Along with the problems you highlight in the beginning, strategic bombers are also too slow to outrun interceptor aircraft, to large and bulky to avoid SAMs and Radar, extremely resource and manpower heavy, fuel guzzlers, and a plethora of other problems.
Plus, carriers don’t even just have to worry about shore launched missiles, as for example almost every mission undertaken by a carrier task force during the mid to late Cold War wouldn’t be complete without a part of the mission being, “Then the carrier group pissed themselves, because a Mirage F-1 or a MiG-29 suddenly appeared and launched Exocet missiles from 180 km away”.
The US still thinks it’s the 1940s, and the generation of elites who came to power after the collapse of the Soviet Union have drunk their own koolaid. They actually believe the post war mythology that the US built up about itself and its war machine.
They are dangerously delusional and the fact that their beliefs are in constant conflict with reality is something they cannot understand and that only makes them more angry. They feel the empire weakening but they are unable to stop it.