We’ll live to see the day when aircraft carriers, just like battleships before them, will be obsolete.
“We’ll live to see the day when aircraft carriers, just like battleships before them, will be obsolete.”
I believe we’re entering an era where any high value manned vehicle will be rendered obsolete by small and relatively intelligent, super fast unmanned vehicles. I suspect the next middle east war will be largely fought with drones, many of which will be semi autonomous. Incidentally, Israel has the most advanced and most prodigiously produced drones in the world right now.
Will having air superiority of large swaths of the ocean ever be obsolete?
Supercavitating Torpedoes
A supercavitating torpedo is a torpedo using the effect of supercavitation to move at high velocity under water.
List Of Supercavitating Torpedoes (developed or in development)
In 2004, German weapons manufacturer Diehl BGT Defence announced their own supercavitating torpedo, Barracuda, now officially named "Superkavitierender Unterwasserlaufkörper" or "supercavitating underwater running object". (English translation)
According to Diehl, it reaches more than 400 kilometres per hour (250 mph).
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Supercavitation.html