Re: More Fighter questions

In a message dated 7/10/99 12:22:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
john_t_leary@pronetusa.net writes:

<< 
 It was OK, 'til you got to the damage control roll per fighter.
 We are talking about starting with fully functional fighters,
 not damaged goods.   Do you plan to apply this to fighters that
 have been recoved from a combat mission as well?   It actually
 makes a more reasonable scenario for recovered fighters than 
 for fresh from storage fighters.
  >>

You're still avoiding the fact that carriers (for real carriers, that
is) 
today do not carry spare aircraft because they are not worth carrying.
It 
takes up hangar and ordnance storage space that coule be better utilized

soring ordnance and fighters ready for ops. Large space fleet carriers
will 
operate under the same constraints [at least I can see no reasonable
argument 
that they would not]. The replacement aircraft are flown in  to the
carrier 
from land bases or from other carriers. Aircraft in crates are NOT
loaded on 
to carriers with cranes. Today a carrier sets sail from port with
nothing 
moire than a COD  aircraft and the anti supbmarine carriers aboard. The
air 
group flies out to meet the carrier and lands aboard for stowage on the 
hangar deck or the ready launch areas. Why would deep space carriers
function 
differently? A fighter not ready to be spotted and flown isn't worth
having 
aboard, and if you have it aboard then by God fly it! [thus making it 
non-cargo and operational, right?0
Carriers lose aircraft in operations, aircraft from other damaged bird
farms 
will find their way aboard and replacements will be flown out. The fleet

train will replenish POL, fuel spare parts and ordnance. In space a 
fighter 
could be assembled on a minimal hangar bay on the replenishment ship and

floated free with a pilot provided by the carrier if spares have to be 
brought on line.  There's no way to justify dead weight replacement
strike 
craft sitting in cargo bays on the carrier, unless that means they
cannot be 
brough on line until assembled, tuned, adjusted, checked out and test
flown. 
If that is the case then they are not available other than on a campaign

basis during rest and refit periods.