Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers
by andyjdavis on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:53PM
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>But it makes me wonder if aircraft carriers are obsolete
It is not quite the same as being obsolete but I suspect that they are far more vulnerable than we realize. Every day missiles get both technically better (faster, longer range, harder to detect) but also cheaper making it more affordable for someone to acquire ever larger stockpiles of them for deployment en masse.
Meanwhile developing countermeasures that can deal with barrages of incoming missiles that are getting progressively more numerous and faster seems like a very difficult, expensive proposition.
It is not quite the same as being obsolete but I suspect that they are far more vulnerable than we realize. Every day missiles get both technically better (faster, longer range, harder to detect) but also cheaper making it more affordable for someone to acquire ever larger stockpiles of them for deployment en masse.
Meanwhile developing countermeasures that can deal with barrages of incoming missiles that are getting progressively more numerous and faster seems like a very difficult, expensive proposition.