yeah! it is easy to say. the U.S. military has shown that their training & equipment is superior to Russians. it has been proven in battle. also you underestimate the size & damage control ablity of Aircraft carriers. these ships are compartmented and armored. 1 missile could not sink them, unless is was a nuke. but with several squadrons of strike aircraft, A airborne early warning Hawkeye, and a battle group. your cruiser would be getting blasted by Harpoon missiles.
That's much easier to say then to do. 1st you would have to find the sub. American subs are very quiet. Russian sonar isn't very sensitive. to get cruisers, you have to again get past fighters, & Missiles. you would have to be very lucky to get past the super hornets, let alone the Standard missiles, you'd be lucky if you got close enough to be engaged by point defenses. oh, and by the way, Arleigh Burke aegis destroyers are stealthy, you can't hit what you can't see.
the missile would have to get past fighters, Aegis cruisers, aegis destroyers, & seawiz & seasparrow point defenses to get to the carrier. oh & by the way that's if a Los Angeles or Seawolf sub hasn't already sunk the Granit's launch platform. it's called layered defenses, it works.
well, when you were a guest they sure did make it out to be cool but they sure did keep you away from the negative parts of this ship, I totally understand people do it for their country I was one of those people just the public relation representatives sure do know how to create a nice picture for the clueless landlubbers
Spankykit, you cant hold the planes down that good coz if something happens and the planes need to be in the air, it would take to long to undo chains. The planes are worth millions and if the ship went down america would suffer badly