4th ed T2K

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by Ursus Maior

That is, of course, true. There are, however, reasons the USN never sent a carrier into the Baltic, not during the Cold War, not during the 2014 Crimean invasion of Russia, not for diplomatic visits or tourist attractions such as Kiel Week (German: Kieler Woche) and not even for BATLOPS exercises. As far as I know, that pond never saw a carrier from afar.

Yes, USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) participated in BALTOPS in June 2018 (https://www.wtkr.com/2018/06/11/uss-...ltops-exercise), but only a part of its wing supported the exercise, the ship proper remained in the Mediterranean, where it took a break from bombing ISIS. Naval warfare in the Baltic Sea is the equivalent to a knifefight in a phonebox.

100 percent correct - and I wonder if Tomas missed the part about the Harry S. Truman never entering the Baltic - anyone want to take a guess he saw that it participatedin BALTOPS and never read the part about the ship remaining in the Med?