Aircraft Carrier Vs Battleship

The german battleships opened fire with their eleven inch guns at a range of fifteen miles if you are the captain of an aircraft carrier these are the words you do not want to hear.

Aircraft carrier vs battleship. Aircraft carrier are always escorted by a few submarines frigates or destroyers. The glorious was one of the first flat top aircraft carriers ever built converted from a speedy courageous. Battleship vs aircraft carrier. And the carrier could hardly replace the battleship if a carrier couldn t even sink a battleship.

The german battleships opened fire with their. The lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend describes an encounter between a large naval ship and what at first appears to be another vessel with which the ship is on a collision course the naval vessel usually identified as of the united states navy or royal navy and generally described as a battleship or aircraft carrier requests that the other ship change course. In return battleships almost never succeeded in closing into gun range of carriers. It was all too late.

It was all too late. In 1940 this actually went down. These submarines and frigates defend the aircraft carrier. Enemy battleship in sight yet on june 8 1940 the british aircraft carrier hms glorious discovered.

As a result any would be naval power had to have battleships in order to counter enemy battleships whereas those who expected their navy to operate in range of land based air support italian german did not need aircraft carriers. Battleship striking range is limited to its guns no hitting stuff 200 miles out like a carrier can naval invasion support and shore bombardment very good armor and survivability firepower will shred lesser surface ships keep in mind ww2 was the era where the carrier overcame the battleship as the primary capital ship. Task force of six small escort carriers protected by just seven.