[DoughtyOne]

I sometimes wonder these days if our carriers are too big of a sitting duck. I have no inside information, so I don’t want to cast dispersion where none are warranted.

It is my take that moderate sized gunships with a multitude of guided missiles could possibly cause a massive amount of offensive damage, and with many of those instead of a few aircraft carriers, there might come a time when they would become more of a preference.

I toss this out there, to get some some feedback. I’m not against hearing this would not be as good a plan as I might think.

I just don’t like being in the position of having three or four of our aircraft carriers taken out, and being faced with a severely reduced fleet in short order.

[chief lee runamok]

It’s the underwater stealth subs that help keep big targets safe.

[Rashputin]

That's a long running argument. I saw one documentary that said FDR preferred to make three Jeep carriers for each of the proposed fleet carriers but deferred to the Navy.

Ever since Midway people have questioned both single large carriers v. multiple small ones and putting multiple carriers together in a fleet as we did for the first Gulf War.