Navy Struggles With 'Fighter Gap'

Andrew Swallow wrote:

:BlackBeard wrote:
: On Apr 7, 10:25 pm, Andrew Swallow wrote:
: Ray O'Hara wrote:
: wrote in message
: ...
: See:
: http://defensenews.com/story.php?i=3466832&c=FEA&s=CVS
: What should the Navy do? Buy more F/A-18's? Speed up JSF
: procurement?
: Or something else?
: gap vs who?
: Try the Chinese attack submarines.
:
: Andrew Swallow
:
: I must admit I am lost here. How does one find relevance between the
: OP subject and Attack Subs?
:
:
:Know thy enemy. Do not fall into the trap of preparing to
:fight the last war but not the next one.
:
:The planes and submarines are enemies. The Chinese attack
:submarines are being built to sink US aircraft carriers. See
revious posts on sci.military.naval. There may be sufficient
:submarines to make a gap through the escort ships.
:
:Since aircraft carriers do not have large guns and torpedoes have a
:longer range than depth charges the carrier will have to rely on
:its aircraft for defence. So what ever aircraft are purchased for
:the ship will need the ability to find and/or sink submarines.
:
:So as well as top gun vs top gun the US Navy needs to do top gun
:vs bottom gun.
:

That's not a 'fighter gap'.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, putting large ASW
aircraft aboard US CVNs would enlarge the air group and such aircraft
would be in addition to current airframes, not replacing them.

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