you have to wonder if aircraft carriers are the new battleship. buy that i mean pre WW2 a lot of navies thought the big gun ship was the key startegic weapon. quickly they learned that the BB was largely obsolete except for some specific infantry and other support missions.
i cant help but htink that if there is a next big war, the aircraft carriers will be gone quickly either from small subs or missiles or nukes.
why would china bother with a conventional warhead and have to exactly target the ship when a nuke could do the same job and blanket a big area?
I was thinking about this a couple of days ago. I hope we are ahead of the game.
The carrier displaced the battleship because the carrier's air wing was a more precise way to both search for, and put ordnance on, a target from farther away.
Until such time that there is an even more precise way to put ordnance on target from even farther away, the carrier will continue to be viable in most battle scenarios.
The only exception would be all out thermonuclear war.
