The Age of the Carrier (Patreon)
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This week the first carrier against carrier battle in history takes place. For the first time, two strike forces separated by dozens of kilometres launch attacks on one another using aircraft rather than heavy naval guns. As the attack on Pearl Harbour around half a year ago showed, heavy battleships are now completely antiquated. This week's Battle of the Coral Sea is just another example of what the future of naval warfare has in store.
It also begs the question: what is as antiquated today as battleships were then? What is the "next" aircraft carrier to our battleship? Is it true, as some suggest, that naval power all together is now irrelevant? What do you think?
Also this week, at the Kerch peninsula by Crimea on the Black Sea, the German military launches their first fresh offensive of the year. While the Soviet forces have certainly demonstrated they remain a capable fighting force, the use of aircraft on land, much like at sea, has allowed for Germany to throw the Soviet forces at Kerch into disarray.