[MNnice]

Yet, in the modern age of submarine-launched cruise and hypersonic missiles, the piloted airplane and aircraft carriers are obsolete.

[PIF]

KEYWORDS: carrier; navy; target;

[Flick Lives]

Yet, in the modern age of submarine-launched cruise and hypersonic missiles, the piloted airplane and aircraft carriers are obsolete.

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I think you’re correct. Just at the battleship was the key surface ship of WW1, the aircraft carrier was the key advancement in ship technology in WW2. WW3 will be different. Carriers, with all their required support and defense ships, can be taken out with a single hypersonic weapon carrying a small nuclear warhead. Even a surface skimming conventional cruise missile could likely evade radar long enough to reach a carrier. Carriers put too many eggs in one basket.