I don’t know what replaces the carrier. The carrier is U. S. soil projected around the world. At any given time we can move the resources to hot spots and put them down.
Without them, we simply do not project in any meaningful manner.
It would seem there could be a way to defeat the new class of killer anti-ship missiles.
That’s what I would be working on feverishly.
> I don’t know what replaces the carrier.
Smaller ships with smaller crews with a bunch of drones, where the drones carry surveillance packages, smaller sub-drones with surveillance packages, or ordnance.
Or perhaps Chinese carriers.
Or Chinese carriers and Russian carriers.
Lasers and rail guns, and they’re already getting mounted on ships, I believe...