How will aircraft carriers fare in this new era? They are a lot more expensive and have a lot more US lives on them. They are awful big targets for drone swarms and ballistic missiles.
The big Nimitz and Ford class carriers will probably be phased out and replaced with small carriers that accommodate drones.
But at the rate we’re going, the USA probably won’t have much of any kind of navy in the next decade.
How will aircraft carriers fare in this new era? They are a lot more expensive and have a lot more US lives on them. They are awful big targets for drone swarms and ballistic missiles.
Don’t forget autonomous underwater vehicles……
The point of aircraft carriers was to deploy large numbers of aircraft to a battlefield far away. they should start thinking about drone carriers……
“How will aircraft carriers fare in this new era?”
Their survivability is likely quite limited as compared to the pre drone and pre hyper sonic missile era. However aircraft carriers is just one problem. Troop transports and those ships that carry the troops tanks, artillery, vehicles and supplies needed to wage war are now at a greater risk of being sunk.
This war is a good learning tool with regards to what can survive modern warfare as well as what needs to be invented to succeed against the Russians and others such as the Chinese.