How do USA aircraft carriers keep going into the wind during operations? Do they travel hundreds of miles in one direction then come back?
I served in USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV67) and completed my Officer of the Deck qualification, so I can respond. There’s two answers-
Instead of submarines having to return to port to refuel and switch crews, why don’t submarines dock with an aircraft carrier at sea so that crews can be swapped, and the sub can be resupplied without ever having to go to land?
It’s a common misconcepion that the two-crewed ballistic missile submarines only have to switch crews and load up on food and other consumables before heading back out to…