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For Want of an Oiler: The Fragile State of America’s Afloat Logistics Fleet
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4372914" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I don’t think you’re grasping the sheer volume of petroleum products they’re using. These oilers are not small ships—the <em>Big Horn</em> is about 3/4 the length of the <em>USS New Jersey</em> (BB-62) and almost 200’ longer than an <em>Arleigh Burke</em>-class destroyer—and they’re as big as they are for a reason. </p><p></p><p>The only aircraft that could carry a useful amount of oil can’t land on a carrier, and none of the ships they’d be refueling can even come close to their stall speeds, so aerial refueling isn’t going to work. Even if you could develop a giant bladder that could survive being towed by a sub, the Navy isn’t going to saddle the cream of their war machine crop with resupply missions—after all, they outsourced that whole mission to the Military Sealift Command so they wouldn’t be saddled with it to begin with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4372914, member: 26737"] I don’t think you’re grasping the sheer volume of petroleum products they’re using. These oilers are not small ships—the [I]Big Horn[/I] is about 3/4 the length of the [I]USS New Jersey[/I] (BB-62) and almost 200’ longer than an [I]Arleigh Burke[/I]-class destroyer—and they’re as big as they are for a reason. The only aircraft that could carry a useful amount of oil can’t land on a carrier, and none of the ships they’d be refueling can even come close to their stall speeds, so aerial refueling isn’t going to work. Even if you could develop a giant bladder that could survive being towed by a sub, the Navy isn’t going to saddle the cream of their war machine crop with resupply missions—after all, they outsourced that whole mission to the Military Sealift Command so they wouldn’t be saddled with it to begin with. [/QUOTE]
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