The more immediate problem is that they have no planes, and will be crewed by a very small crew of tea drinking surrender monkeys.
An Iranian motorboat might get them.
For that kind of money, they could have gotten a real aircraft carrier.
What I want to know, with these types of stories......why do the writers think navies are unaware of potential threats? Why do they think the US and UK navies don’t already have counters for the “cheap’ missiles?
In the 21st Century, aren’t aircraft carriers simply huge targets that can be sunk, or at least rendered combat ineffective, by even some dinky 2d world country with it’s old diesel-electric subs, which are very quiet, and decent torpedoes?
Nothing can compare to our CVN(IF) models. Brilliant idea to put ‘em in superhero movies so our government can plausibly deny their existence.
/jk
There are a bevy of affordable anti-ship missiles that even poor Nations can afford.
the key is to get the carrier’s as far off the coast as possible, out of the range of these missiles.
With current manned aircraft that is impossible.
reliable, long-range, robotic aircraft would permit this and keep carriers viable for quite a bit more time.
directed energy weapons will mitigate this but really aircraft like the UCLASS would have helped quite a bit.
It was cancelled.
I’m sure that Trump would make the Uk a great deal on the USS Enterprise and even refuel it’s reactor for free.