[Drew68]

All this talk about how carriers are easy to sink is amateur hour. It’s like saying a Marine is vulnerable to machine gun fire, so Marines are obsolete.

A carrier today costs upwards of $14 billion and takes a decade to build. Sending one to the bottom of the sea would be a significant loss.

[kabar]

A carrier today costs upwards of $14 billion and takes a decade to build. Sending one to the bottom of the sea would be a significant loss.<

It would also trigger a massive response up to and including nuclear.

[central_va]

A carrier today costs upwards of $14 billion and takes a decade to build. Sending one to the bottom of the sea would be a significant loss.

Do realize it would take a nuke to "send one to the bottom". If a major power is shooting nukes at our carriers the there are much bigger problems than that to deal with.