I agree. We have carrier battle groups that are supposedly protected by technology. Phased array radars all over, support from Arleigh Burke Missile Cruisers, etc.
And the Chinese have been working on overhead carrier killers with MIRVS (Long Duong), and a conventional air force that would just wither away our carrier based naval aviator force by sheer attrition. There just aren’t enough missiles, IMO.
I remind people here that it was a CHINESE sub who surfaced in within 5 miles of a carrier battle group exercise (undetected) in the Pacific in 2016
LOL. So you think the sub was "undetected"? I am sure there was a USN SSN right on its tail the whole time. Also, my guess is SOSUS had a pretty good idea the general area of probablity that sub was in. Those that have never spent a minute at sea are experts. Right....