Iran builds a giant carrier shaped barge

[regexcellent]

They are mostly resupplied by ship I think.. Carrier groups include an oiler which carries fuel, food, ammunition, etc. for the other vessels.

[molly bloom]

There is a clear reason. To get right-wing nutjobs worked up over it.

Mission Accomplished- as one right wing trustafarian said.

[Kidlicious]

That seems a very expensive way to resupply. If supply is the only issue, why not just resupply by sea.

The main reason to go to port is so that the crew can get off for leave.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Who doesn't want to get off with an Iranian model?

[Al B. Sure!]

That seems a very expensive way to resupply. If supply is the only issue, why not just resupply by sea.

They do replenish by sea. It does make sense to also use helicopters to expedite the process.

But at any given moment, most of our carrier fleet is at home, either in port being maintained or conducting training in American waters. We only have 2-4 carriers deployed at a time.

[Dr Strangelove]

Could the model be a set for a movie?

[regexcellent]

Could the model be a set for a movie?

If it is, I wanna see it

[Patroklos]

Some comments:

1. While a CSG might deploy with five or six ships attached rarely are they together. Generally the carrier will have one ship nearby (in nautical terms within a couple hundred miles) and everyone else will be off doing other missions. In time of was they could be brought together and they will plus up to transit a strait or some such but simply sitting in screens all the time is a waste of billions of dollars.

2. Carriers do not have to pull into port for anything other than the most serious of maintenance needs, I believe the record is held by USS Theodore Roosavelt at 170ish days of continuous underway time. The only real limit on a carrier's endurance is food (it generally carries enough jet fuel for most normal operations short of war) and critical repair parts. The food it gets via underway replenishment (sometimes augmented with helos) and the parts and any other important small cargo via COD flights.

3. Two or three operating is the norm unless we are at 2.0 presence in the 5th Fleet and one of those is generally a carrier transiting to relieve or heading home after having been relieved.

4. Most sailors on a carrier are not armed or qualified to be armed in the case of a boarding, plenty are or would be though and out of 6000 people you are talking hundreds of qualified watch standees that could be called upon. The real reason a boarding wouldn't work on a vessel manned at carrier levels is that it's a steel structure full of watertight steel doors. It would be a trivial exercise for most of the ship to lock out intruders.

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(Thanks for the correction Patroklos!)

Check out this quality Iranian construction:

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Could the model be a set for a movie?

Yes.

All the crimes of Heliogabalus - soon to be a major motion picture.

[molly bloom]

Who doesn't want to get off with an Iranian model?

Male model ?

Not this one, thanks.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

You could do a lot worse.

[molly bloom]

You could do a lot worse.

I've consistently done better.

However, in a smiling grandfather/uncle contest he would place. It's a genuine smile too, if you look at the eyes as well.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Yeah; he's old, he's not thin and the turban isn't helping - but I'm an artist, and I see a little beauty in the middle-eastern-Hedi's-grandpa thing he's got going...

Actually, I just saved that shot as possible SMACX leaderhead fodder.