Iran makes a huge show of blowing up 'US aircraft carrier' in explosive TV spectacle

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74. Thus the carriers stay out of the gulf

The Persian position to narrow and to busy for Carriers to stay that far from other ships if the carriers stay in the Gulf. It takes a lot of ocean to turn carrier around at full speed thus in the gulf Carriers never come close to their top speed. Furthermore you have wake problems i.e. the wake of the Carrier and the ships around the Carrier all have to kept their wakes down low so not to swamp the numerous small boats that operate in the Gulf. You can not keep those small boats out of Gulf except by sinking them and if you sink all of them you just declared war on all of them including Saudi Arabia.

In the Arabian Sea avoiding other ships is NOT a problem, you have the space to do so. Most of the advantages of a Carrier disappear in a high volume of traffic narrow corridor that is the Persian Gulf. No one is planning to attack a Carrier in the open ocean, but in someplace like the Persian Gulf that's a whole different battle situation.

General Van Riper in a US Navy exercise did sink a Carrier and the ships Around it Thus the position it is clear Carriers can be sunk in the Persian Gulf. In such narrow confinements Carriers have been considered nothing more then missile magnets since the 1960s. In the open ocean the Carriers are supreme bu you take the open ocean away all of the advantages of the carriers goes with the lost of being able to maneuver. That is the situation with the Persian Gulf.