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elif | parent | next
I seriously doubt there is a country on earth which lacks the capability to detect an aircraft carrier's presence in the Mediterranean sea.

We are not talking about stealth vehicles.

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deepsun | parent | next
Mediterranean maybe (although I'm not sure), but it's actually very hard to find a ship, even as large as an aircraft carrier, in the ocean. The empty space is just too big. Satellites have hard time taking pictures of every square mile of a sea to find any ship, yet alone the one you need.
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charcircuit | root | parent | next
You would only need to find it once, potentially at a port, and then you can follow it.
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joe_mamba | root | parent | next
>Satellites have hard time taking pictures of every square mile of a sea to find any ship, yet alone the one you need.

That's why satellites use radars and scientific instrumentation magnetometers to find stuff like ships or even subs underwater.

post-it | root | parent
Those suffer from the same problem. There's a lot of ocean, and if you don't know where to look then you won't find what you're looking for.
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1970-01-01 | parent
If Charles de Gaulle turns off AIS, how does North Korea find it?
vntok | root | parent | next
Track not the ship itself but the planes that take off and land on it. Many sites will expose their paths, you'll see the planes circling in a pattern around "some void" - that's the ship.
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paxys | parent | next
Is an aircraft carrier's location supposed to be secret? Pretty hard to hide from a satellite I'd imagine.
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FridayoLeary | parent | next
Unrelated but the UK has 2 aircraft carriers (but not enough planes, but that's for a different time). Why aren't they being deployed? this war is literally the reason why they were built. It's not a declaration of war to project your military power to a region you have an interest in. But of course our navy is a laughingstock, taking a full week to deploy a solitary destroyer while our bases are under attack. (and the US basically broadcast their intentions months in advance). Meanwhile the strait of Hormuz needs defending and that is also something that's very much in the UKs interest as its continued closure is costing our economy. I'm confused what the logic is.
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