Used. Thanks for the info. Some of us just admire the navy without ever having learned much about it.
Think of an AC carrier like big game. Could you kill a buffalo with a .22 rifle? Sure. A lucky hit in the eye and into the brain cavity would put it down. OTH 25 hits not in the head region might slow it down, might even put it down but if a veterinarian treated that wounded buffalo it could be nursed back to heath. War is random, war is luck or being unlucky. You never know.