I actually think we may want to create a number of ‘drone’ carriers that are small, destroyer sized flat decked with missle compartments and small landing decks for large drones that can carry missle payloads - increase delivery vectors, spread out the risk, overload the defenses. Maybe even some disposable sub versions with vtol capability. Still keep the manned carriers but only 8 - 4 pac/3 lant-med/1 io-me on slower roation with 1 pac/1 lant in dock...in the meantime 6 destroyer sized drone carriers/ocean moving - always moving....
We should take some old Destroyers we have and convert them into Drone Carriers. Maybe use wooden decks? The conversions shouldn’t be too hard or expensive—It would use this new weapon well and add to our naval power.