US President Joseph Biden again raised the question of playing the aircraft carrier Harry Truman ahead of schedule (USS Harry S. Truman). The fact that this question again became the topic for the debate in the American power circles, wrote earlier in March Defense News, but Russian media paid attention only now.
Previously, this aircraft carrier was put forward from the fleet from the Fleet at Donald Trump, but the 45th president immediately rejected him. Supporters of sending “retired” an aircraft carrier who can serve for another 25 years, indicate that it will save billions of dollars, leaving for its content, and the released funds can be spent on more modern weapons.
Opponents of such a step in the congress insist on the fact that, according to the existing military doctrine, the United States should have enough aircraft carriers – now there are already 10 of them, and not 11, as it requires it. If you cut the number of such ships for another one, then the control of Americans over the world ocean will weaken.
Edition, however, indicates that in recent years, the significance of aircraft carriers falls – with the advent of high-precision and long-range rocket systems, countries are less and less profitable to put on this class of ships.
In January of this year, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (Raran) on Information Policy, Dr. Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov described how Russia would have to level the US superiority to the sea.