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Originally Posted by hbloms
Yes, an american aircraft carrier can easily hold off some backwater country and if necessary render almost any military forces useless...
BUT they are not a great advantage against any of the more sophisticated nations on the planet... I mean even North Korea with their small size and low technology can take out a carrier in a single missile strike... 10 missiles are unstoppable even by the Vulcans on the side of those warships...
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Not a chance...
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Originally Posted by hbloms
Personally i believe the Grand Army of Europe to be the greatest fighting force assembled... They have not yet seen any real action so it seems impossible to draw parallels... But i think that when looking at the international recognition european forces and weaponry have gotten over the past few years it seems they've assembled quite the team for the task at hand...
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The "Grand Army of Europe" has had to have America rescue them twice in the last 100 years.
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I know for sure that the German Leopard class tanks have by far out-gunned and outrunned any opposition except for the British Challenger class which holds the current terrain speed record...
The Danish special forces Jęgerkorpset has won several international competitions and receive training in combat all over the world fx as French Foreign Legionaires in New Guinea and as Seals in the US (not actual Seals just same training). They've also got the Sirius Dogsleigh Patrol, the only arctic warfare only special forces. And the Frogman Corpse specializing in missions involving water insertion or diving.
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The US has both a qualitative and quantitative advantage in armor.
Germany has 408 Leopard IIs in service.
Britain has around 386 Challenger IIs.
The US Armed Forces has:
1174 M1A2 (Army inventory)
4393 M1A1 (Army inventory)
403 M1A1 (USMC inventory)
I should also point out that the Australian upgraded from the Leopard to the Abrams.
In Desert Storm exactly 1 crewmember died in an Abrams, and that was after it was hit three times by another tank and once with an RPG.
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The British Navy and the Danish Navy also is the one of the strongest Naval forces known to man having anything from sub-marines to carriers, destroyers and missile ships.
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One of two British carriers (HMS Invincible) and one of twelve US carriers (USS John C. Stennis).
That about sums it up, eh?
Now add in the most advanced attack and missile subs in the world, and the most advanced missile ships with the Aegis system, and you have a navy that is more powerful than the rest of the combined navies of the world.
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Last but not least, it's not only american forces that has been given renown for their air abilities. The Eurofighter Tycoon project is to be the first of many european sponsored projects involving superiority in all the fields of battle. The RAF and the Luftwaffe still exist to this day.
Not to mention the fact that if the entire Union was to fight as one entity they would have the largest and second most expensive army on the planet.
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The Typhoon is a generation behind the F-35 Raptor, and is inferior in every way. In 20 years Europe may have a fighter that will equal the F-35, but we'll be ahead by 30 years by that point.
You can't hit what you can't see.