I googled the cost of an Aircraft Carrier and it's only $15 billion or so. That's it? That's all? How do other countries not have them? Are they retarded? Elon Musk could buy 66 of them if he wanted to convert all of his wealth into Aircraft Carriers.
>>65332273Money does not just translate to manufactured goods. You have to manufacture the goods.
>>65332298The sun will also rise in the morning, that does not change the fact that this is a drop in the bucket of the annual US military budget in what is still for the US considered peacetime.
>>65332344Try to manufacture 66 of them.
>>65332344>The sun will also rise in the morningOnly thanks to the ritual of Sed, performed by the Son of the Sun God Ra
>>65332495Glory be to the sun's holy journey
>>65332273They are great for force projection if you start wars all over the world, they are pointless if you are focused on defence and don't want to start shit.
>>65332505So we should conclude that anyone who is either operating or constructing carriers intends to start wars all over the world?
>>65332545They want to be able to, yes.
>>65332623Noting that information down for any future threads about Chinese aircraft carriers
>>65332626I would say the only exception is Japan because they call chopper carriers carriers. Chopper carriers lack the same level of force projection and can be vital to humanitarian efforts for island nations.
>>65332273You need the peripherals to have the ability to defend them like missiles destroyers, frigate, jets.Each requires the own industry, knowhow, and funding.I'm not saying it's difficult nor impossible but it's hard to figure out where to start probably.
>>65332419>TryLiterally nothing stopping the US from just doing it.
>>65332298This. It’s 15 bil for the USA, and maybe china, because we are massive countries that prioritize productivity. It ain’t 15 bil for Algeria or whatever
>>65332702Shipyard capacity is
>>65332702Sane people in the congress.
>>65332711The US built most of the shipyards it had during WW2 for WW2. "Muh shipyards" is as much of a thirdie cope as the petrodollar. I know what you are, ACless vermin.
>>65332716well congress is gay then
>>65332505The force projection is also useful for ending shit over ocean disputes.If Australia started sinking Chinese shipping with subs there's not much that China could do from land. Being able to sail a few carriers off of Sydney to bomb them into the ground is a threat.
>>65332717House is a steady 74 pal, but you're fucktarded if you think we can just print 60 Fords tomorrow. It'd be an eminent domain shitshow followed by a draft shitshow followed by a competency shitshow.
>>65332728It really isn't, given China's naval record one will lost its propeller en route and the other will sink because all the hatches open inward and are secured with ramen noodles held together by paint.
>>65332730>House is a steady 74 palNo that's the average IQ of your real country lmao
>>65332736Ok cletus, may yours one day surpass your number of remaining teeth
>>65332728>sail a few carriers off of Sydney to bomb them into the groundAh yes Chinese carriers will surely not get giga-raped by the US Navy for showing even a hint of aggression towards Australia. Yes, being an Asian country that attacks US allies to establish your own independent zone is a great idea nobody has ever tried before. >>65332730>tomorrowWatch those goalposts MOVE
>>65332742That doesn't work because someone with perfect teeth would still be retarded by that metric, but it's funny how quick thirdies go from larping as American to dropping the mask. Remember when you go back to telegram to seethe in cyrillic that /k/ put a hole in your spoon.
>>65332743The Ford took 12 years to build dude, sure its a casualty of the peace dividend but I don't see congress in a hurry to go back to 80's level military spending.
>>65332752>top tier minds of mississippiSherman didn't burn enough.
>>65332273The problem isn't building them, it's operating and maintaining them. There are several ex-carrier-operating countries out there that discovered that the hard way.
>>65332273$15b for a hull. Now you need fighters, escorts, port infrastructure and shore bases for all of this, the people to crew and maintain all of it, and you can't let the land crew lose their jobs.
>>65332756Now you're deflecting to the fact that we don't NEED to pump them out right now to try to fool yourself into thinking we CAN'T pump them out.
>>65332771Not at all what i said you illiterate mongoloid.
>>65332762
>>65332776Google translate must be giving you problems, ESL-kun.
>>65332793How fast are you proposing these 60 carriers get pumped out? Are you assuming that we had a genie wish for enough shipyard space to do it? Or willing manpower?
>>65332273I really don't know what Sweden would do with an aircraft carrier.
>>65332273>Elon Musk could buy 66 of them if he wanted to convert all of his wealth into Aircraft Carriers.leftie moment. how do you think you convert stocks into an aircraft carrier
>>65332881Take out loans backed by the stock, same way you get an income without income tax.
>>65332273aircraft carriers are only marginally useful by themselves. You'll need another $15 billion in escorts, another $10 billion in aircraft, ammunition, provisions, personnel, nuclear fuel, jet A, spares, missiles, torpedoes, helicopters, etc, We have 11 of them, so multiply that by 11 and then some of those are rotating in maintenance.
>>65332273Heres the question anonDo you want your tax money used to increasing your standard of living or building more carrier?
>>65332298Fuck you right in the mouth, I will in fact calculate things based on units of aircraft carrier.
>>65332717Yeah, and most of them are GONE now, just like every other facet of American industry that peaked EIGHTY YEARS AGO
>>65332273why do people keep pretending that people who own companies with [insert value] have that amount of liquid cash just locked away in a vault somewhere?it's the value of a stock, you fucking idiot, it's not actual money that he has on hand.
>>65332919that would instantly reduce the value of the stock to nearly nothing long before it's all liquidated, fucking idiot.
>>65333281Why would selling no stock decrease the stock price?Look up "securities-backed loan" if you want to learn.
>>65333023>he thinks OP can perform a multiplication
