I agree that small and stealthy are a good idea for a defense force, but remember that these things aren't really small. This new ship is almost exactly the same size of the Yorktown class fleet carriers we used in World War II and they're not much smaller than the Essex class that replaced the Yorktowns. I realize that the Nimitz class would dwarf this little ship, but that's a super carrier and I think the US is the only nation in the world capable of building them.