“We’ll live to see the day when aircraft carriers, just like battleships before them, will be obsolete.”
I believe we’re entering an era where any high value manned vehicle will be rendered obsolete by small and relatively intelligent, super fast unmanned vehicles. I suspect the next middle east war will be largely fought with drones, many of which will be semi autonomous. Incidentally, Israel has the most advanced and most prodigiously produced drones in the world right now.
I would hope our government has already developed
underwater drones/autonomous mine/torpedos which
can be spread and left for months before actively
seeking out enemy vessels.
Seanet.
BULLSH!!TE...The US does.
They're called democrats.
Then you will see attacks on soft targets and where the drone pilots live.
And the other side is developing drones too.