To some degree you are right. This aspect may forever be impossible to completely beat.
I think with the many ships surrounding a carrier all with the “digital mapping controlled high speed guns”, will make the water so chummed with Iranians and their little boats, carrier water intake filtration may be the critical path.
68 posted on 07/25/2012 8:51:15 AM PDT by X-spurt
(It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)