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Re:Pentagon to Retire USS Truman Early, Shrinking Carrier Fl... by nickthemagicman on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:16PM (#19276811)
China has developed an entire missile class devoted to destroyong aircraft carriers.

I gander that there's a reason that we're the only country with more than one aircraft carrier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21

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Re:Pentagon to Retire USS Truman Early, Shrinking Carrier Fl... by 0xffff2 on Friday March 01, 2019 @03:07PM (#19284774)
We can all argue till we're blue in the face over how vulnerable aircraft carriers are, but the reason that we're the only country with multiple super carriers (there are countries with multiple smaller carriers) is that they're expensive as hell and only the US's outsized military spending can support them.
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