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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4373022" data-attributes="member: 26737">It doesn’t matter if the carrier can sail around the world twenty times without refueling if it doesn’t have the jet fuel to launch the birds. A friend used to talk about his time in the Navy back in the Cold War, and he said one of the ways they showed their dominance was by doing simultaneous underway refueling and replenishment, which was something the Soviet navy wasn’t capable of doing. It’s sad to think that we might not even be able to do underway refueling at all…</blockquote>