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So a submarine can sink an aircraft carrier? Who knew?
Aircraft carriers are huge targets - prime targets. This is why when they go out to sea they go with dozens of other ships called aircraft carrier groups. The other ships are to protect the aircraft carrier, by acting as bait and also searching out for threats such as submarines. The goal of the opposing force is to sneak a submarine in to take out the aircraft carrier.
However, there is only a handful of countries in the world that have such submarines that could take on an aircraft carrier and an aircraft carrier group. These would be limited to China and Russia. Other countries include the UK, France, and India. Iran doesn't have any nuclear submarines, only seven or eight old diesel submarines.
Here are some odd facts I came across when looking up stats just now... The US Navy had 22 attack aircraft carriers during WW II and lost five of those. The Imperial Japanese Navy had fourteen attack aircraft carriers during WW II and lost eleven of them
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