(08-02-2020, 11:20 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-02-2020, 11:15 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: When confronted with immutable facts:

You still haven't told me how many enterprise class ships you think we need.

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Was the JSF program a good use of money? How many of those aircraft do we need?

As many as needed to do the job. 12 seems to be the happy number. What you're failing to take into account is the availability of the carriers at any given time while several are going through maintenance, upkeep and upgrade. These can take months at a time. So while we may have 12 carriers, perhaps only 8 are available for deployment. It fluctuates. There's also consideration for aging carriers that will be decommissioned while newer ones take their place with better technology and capabilities. Again, that number fluctuates. The numbers of ships we have, of any type, are produced with the availability factor in mind.

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