2006-12-23 14:30:07 · 3 answers · asked by catchup 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
I suppose that it could be built but when you think about it logically it would be a non starter. Most military naval units depend on their survival by being stealthy. As a capital unit as soon as its stealth is compromised then it has to be defended tying up other units that could be used elsewhere. Just consider the carrier units of the American fleet. One carrier plus all the support and defensive ships. During WW2 there was an idea proposed to use a large flat topped iceberg to make it into a floating airfield and base. It would be very hard to destroy, the only problem they would have had would be in moving it around.
Yes the offshore base is build-able but in practice not viable.
2006-12-24 20:20:32 · answer #1 · answered by F650 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Cobb wrote an excellent story based around this , called Sea Fighter.....go buy all 4 of his Amanda Garrett books...
the problem with the whole concept is, as the other poster stated:...
.its one big, immobile target....
it's not based on military hull scantlings, so it doesn't have the armour/bulkheads/compartmentalization a warship has.....againts a third world force.say, anchored off Somalia or Liberia its just barely tenable..against a Iran or N. Korea which could launch a dozen cruise missiles at it.....it is a non-stater of an idea.
2006-12-27 15:32:31 · answer #2 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saudis might buy it as a desalination plant.
2006-12-29 14:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by Phone E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋