Object
Two Destroyers (escorting carrier — The State Dinner — S01E07)
Two steel‑hulled destroyers ride alongside a carrier as paired escort warships: compact, seaworthy grey hulks framed only by urgent briefing mentions rather than on‑screen inspection. Characters reference their presence to amplify the formation’s scale—implying bridge crews, radar masts, and layered defenses—while the ships themselves remain offstage, operational but vulnerable within the crisis. Their depiction is functional and terse, invoked to compress the emergency into tangible naval risk.
2 appearances
Purpose
Provide escort and protective screening for the carrier battle group—defend against surface, air, and subsurface threats and perform tactical maneuvering as part of the formation.
Significance
Serve as a concrete measure of military scale and vulnerability in the unfolding crisis: their mention expands the stakes beyond the flagship, suggests additional lives and assets at risk, and heightens urgency without diverting narrative focus from command decisions.
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