they said one or two, a couple, five to six, you know, they got -- they got one sor of,ou know -- the goughfunding to design, to discuss the idea of a carri. that's all they got but i don think there was ever any plans what kind of carriers the need for what the general evin jolie said what kind of carriers to we need? where? why? where are we going to sl with them? like the same thing stalin said in 1958 or so, where are you going to go with those carriers? to the shores of the united states and, you know, you look at what ships they are going to build and it'she same old stuff. first of all, strategic msile carrying submarines then multi-purpose attack submarines, multipurpose surface ships, strike and reconnaissance systems, command and control navigation systems. it's a very -- this is the navy oriented on protecting the kind of liberal and operating the sea based leg of the nuclear triangle which is rather conservative vision. again, it's- you know, and june of 2009, the chief of general staff said one of the few things he had to say about the navy in his long ranging interview and sta