What happens if you use an aircraft carrier to fight against typhoons?

What happens if you use an aircraft carrier to fight against typhoons?

With the development of science and technology, human power is getting stronger and stronger, and we have weapons and equipment with strong combat effectiveness, which can not only cause huge losses to our opponents, but also cause indelible damage to nature, as can be seen from the atomic bombs dropped by the United States during World War II.

Of course, the atomic bomb, as a nuclear weapon, has never been used in actual combat since World War II, even though there are many reserves in the world today. In sharp contrast, it is another behemoth in the military field-the aircraft carrier.

For a long time, with its huge size and special steel structure, the aircraft carrier can be said to be rampant at sea, because its anti-sinking ability is really eye-catching, and people can't help wondering, what will happen if the aircraft carrier is used to fight natural disasters, such as typhoons?

For this problem, an American admiral had already tried it as early as 1940s. In this way, it is a joke for an aircraft carrier to ride the wind and waves at sea.

William F. Halsey, the American navy general, is called "the son of the storm" because he led the aircraft carrier fleet to fight against the typhoon. This is not only an affirmation of his courage, but also an awe of the power of natural typhoons.

During his military career in halsey, he fought against two typhoons. Although I suffered heavy losses every time and almost ruined my military career, I have to say that this is indeed a direct confrontation between human beings and nature. It is worth mentioning that the two typhoon events were less than a year apart, and each time it was due to halsey's command error.

1944, at the end of World War II, halsey encountered a powerful typhoon "Cobra" while leading the third carrier fleet to Luzon Island. At that time, the Hawaiian weather forecast center had sent a dangerous signal to the halsey fleet, but halsey chose to believe his own weather forecast results and directly brought the fleet into the center of Typhoon Cobra. For a time, the whole fleet was "drifting with the tide" in the big wind and waves, and the strong wind speed and wave height made the fleet suffer heavy losses.

It is reported that after the typhoon, the fleet inventory found that three destroyers sank, 146 aircraft was damaged, and even several aircraft carrier hangars caught fire. The number of dead and missing soldiers in the fleet is as high as 800. After this incident, halsey was deprived of the command of the Third Fleet. However, as the battle of Okinawa continued, halsey finally regained his official position and replaced other fleets with the above battlefields.

It was during this trip that he resumed his official position and was attacked by Typhoon Connie again. Because the fleet entered the typhoon center again, the Third Fleet, which had just recovered its strength, was hit hard again. More than 65,438 planes were destroyed and damaged, and several soldiers were killed or injured.