Quote: (05-07-2015 12:26 AM)eljeffster Wrote:
Quote: (05-05-2015 10:58 AM)DChambers Wrote:
Quote: (05-04-2015 12:11 AM)RioNomad Wrote:
It's obviously the US. We have more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined.
http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries...+Countries
How would they even be able to get troops onto American soil?
Aircraft carriers are outdated technology that can be sunk with a WW2 era torpedo, also highly vulnerable to missiles and tactical nukes.
The U.S. is still the hardest country to invade, however that's not so much because of the carriers as for other reasons.
What isn't vulnerable to tactical nukes? Carriers are surrounded by a group of ships to deal with torpedos and missles. Admittedly China has been working on anti-ship ballistic missiles, but those would help prevent the invasion of China, and the question was what would be the hardest country to invade. How is anyone going to get men and material past all the carrier groups to the shores of America?
There is a reason the USA has somewhere between 10 and 19 carriers depending on how one counts
http://thediplomat.com/2014/04/does-the-...-carriers/
This. And if you're going to factor in nuclear capability, we don't even NEED the carriers because troop transports get nuked easier than carrier groups.
And you don't want to get in a nuke fight with the guy with the most nukes.