It pretty clearly means you can damage an aircraft carrier to the point it can no longer contribute to the fight, but actually destroying and sinking it is harder. The ship would then be removed from combat for repairs.
i was doing a bit but yeah, you are correct. I wish they had just used the words destroyed and damaged instead my dumb brain keeps thinking that a ship can't die so you get to pick what that means because it could be damaged like even though it did not "die" and be unable to be used in future battles which is pretty much a death for a battleship in my mind, you need a new one, but yeah this cleared this up for me
"Sink" is the word we all need here because it's literally what they mean and the writer's decision to use figurative language here just isn't helpful.
like it is even dumber than that i feel because like i think they mean kill as in they cannot be repaired anymore but if they are not operational in a fight they are as good as dead
the trick is on defining what a kill is so both can be true at once
It pretty clearly means you can damage an aircraft carrier to the point it can no longer contribute to the fight, but actually destroying and sinking it is harder. The ship would then be removed from combat for repairs.
Equivalent to a wounded soldier vs a dead one.
i was doing a bit but yeah, you are correct. I wish they had just used the words destroyed and damaged instead my dumb brain keeps thinking that a ship can't die so you get to pick what that means because it could be damaged like even though it did not "die" and be unable to be used in future battles which is pretty much a death for a battleship in my mind, you need a new one, but yeah this cleared this up for me
"Sink" is the word we all need here because it's literally what they mean and the writer's decision to use figurative language here just isn't helpful.
Yeah this ain't difficult and I'm sure it's explained in the article but here we are.
It's not explained. The article is kind of shit.
That's Business Insider.
For fun, I decided to list the cited sources:
David Ochmanek, a RAND warfare analyst,
Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense and an experienced war-gamer,
USNI News (USNI = US Naval Institute)
the National Defense Strategy Commission — a bipartisan panel of experts picked by Congress to evaluate the National Defense Strategy
I love the free press
This is why we need gamercide
They're nearly impossible to kill if they stay in the harbor. They're only vulnerable if they go into war.
like it is even dumber than that i feel because like i think they mean kill as in they cannot be repaired anymore but if they are not operational in a fight they are as good as dead
Depends how long the fight goes on.