How fast can the American industrial base replace units that are lost in combat?
I think there is only one shipyard that makes full sized carriers.
Re: “How fast can the American industrial base replace units that are lost in combat?”
This carrier will take roughly 3 years from laying the keel to final sea trials, which actually seems pretty fast to me.
I’ll guess the nuclear power plant probably took longer than three years to construct and test.
Including all the aircraft and trained crew, several years at least.
And, someone has to pay for it all, too.
Hopefully, it will be an impressive psychological weapon that nobody ever wants to test or antagonize.
Ah-ha...someone gets it. These things take years to build. We could never fight a conventional war like WWII again.