[Allen H]

Thank God and Ronald Reagan for the U.S. Navy. I sleep well at night knowing they've been planning for a full out conventional and/or nuclear war with China, so if it happens, they have a plan to fight and win it. And you have to know for a fact that every ships and sub Captain and crew, and every aviator would LOVE to bag a Chinese carrier something fierce. It's been a LONG TIME since anyone has sank a carrier in war. That would be a great career booster to those who accomplish that, if that war happens.

[JamesP81]

It's been a LONG TIME since anyone has sank a carrier in war.

IIRC, I don't think we've sank a hostile capital ship or escort ship larger than a patrol craft since WW2. The Navy has spent its days shooting cruise missiles, naval artillery, and flying sorties against land targets since WW2.

That being said, the United States Navy's first mission is to find and destroy other people's ships, and no one can do it better.