Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "Armed Merchant Cruisers & Raiders - Bearing Deadly Cargo" video.

  1. No chance in the real world, unless there is a repeat of the Falklands War where they did use three cruise ships with heli pads built over the swimming pools and AA guns bolted on. But if there is access to a friendly airport, a couple of Airbus A380s could carry the same number of personnel and they would have a vastly smaller chance of being shot down than a cruise ship would have of being sunk. Cruise ships and passenger aircraft don't have the capacity to carry much freight, so supplies would need to be dispatched in container ships either way, if the troops and support staff travelled by ship or plane.
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  2.  @jimtaylor294  In the 1920s the Australians built a seaplane carrier / tender named HMAS Albatross. So that's at least one ship named after a bird that had its own aircraft.
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