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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
I doubt a the USN would send a carrier anywhere near the range of these boats in wartime. A CVN would most likely patrol about 500 nm out in the Indian Ocean to be out of range of shore based SSMs and to give their alert fighters ample time to react to any approaching bogies.
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Most definitely....hence setting the exclusion zone to a far wider radious.....I doubt they'd get close enough to see the plume of smoke of any surface vessel