If you wish to debate the correctness or otherwise of that statement, I suggest you do so with its originator. As I’ve already said, it’s nothing to do with me. I’m not going to speculate on the thought processes which led to it.
BTW, the entire Med can’t be covered by land-based fighters from Italy. You’re conflating my comment, that the islands you had named could all be covered by aircraft from the Italian mainland, with enrr’s original statement, which was not referring to those islands.
You appear to be trying to provoke an argument, but I can’t see that there’s anything to argue about. The British decision to build the Invincible class was driven by different factors, in a different time. It wasn’t designed as an aircraft carrier, but an anti-submarine helicopter carrier, for fighting the Soviet navy in the North Atlantic. Ascension (raised by you, again) was not expected to need defending by aircraft carriers – and still isn’t. The Invincibles aren’t relevant to a discussion of Cavour, & the requirements driving its design. It should more properly be compared with Charles de Gaulle, or the future Queen Elizabeth class.
I won’t participate further in this discussion. If you want to argue with enrr over his remark, please don’t do so by replying to my posts.
Get a life, will ya, you’re the one who started nitpicking about the med not being an ocean etc. (which was besides the point anyhow)
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