tell me the USN CVG sailed on the courses I approximated by THICK red arrows:
A carrier formation is something like a (kinetic sculpture): every part of the formation is moving with his own speed (ships with sonar as slow as possible, the carrier as fast as possible into the wind for flying stations, then slower back to the next starting point for the next run) in his own direction. It is not like with a given geometric shape.
At the time of the Cold War, the Russian destroyers were closer to the American aircraft carriers than their own escorts. Then that will be similar to the Chinese now.
in the response to a similar question by someone else,
... after
machine translated as "The satellite image is said to show the location of the USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea in late September (yellow), with Chinese warships (red) appearing around (Image: Weibo)"
Brumby there's an operational perspective
