Of course a lot of this is self-serving stuff designed to drum up more money to spend, but defence against missiles is fundamentally asymmetric. The defender need to get lucky every time, while the attacker only needs to be lucky once or twice. And MIRV is a big multiplier in favour of the attacker.
Carriers are great against countries or factions without anti-ship missile capability.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4810853/china-railgun-warship-wea...
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/3/22/i...
https://news.usni.org/2019/03/05/report-u-s-carriers-need-ne...
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-apparently-gets-its-a...
Of course a lot of this is self-serving stuff designed to drum up more money to spend, but defence against missiles is fundamentally asymmetric. The defender need to get lucky every time, while the attacker only needs to be lucky once or twice. And MIRV is a big multiplier in favour of the attacker.
Carriers are great against countries or factions without anti-ship missile capability.