Top to bottom: USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) alongside Nimitz class carriers USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) & USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). Pinterest
Business Insider: Navy Aircraft Carriers Are Expensive and Vulnerable to Attack. Here's How to Replace Them.
Could this work?
If we stop buying carriers after the JFK, the United States will still have seven carriers through 2050. If we shift funds to container ship carriers, we can vastly increase the numbers of platforms and weapons while cutting personnel and procurement costs drastically. And while carriers represent a fifty-year commitment and billions in decommissioning costs, container ships can be retired easily if necessary. In a time of rapid technological change, should we be making fifty-year bets?
There is an ongoing debate about the continued viability of the aircraft carrier. Proponents point to the fact the carrier provides a range of capabilities essential for power projection and sea control that, without basing rights, cannot be provided in any other way. Opponents note that several nations have drones and cruise missiles that vastly outrange the short-legged carrier air wing. They also note that China has developed a ballistic missile specifically to kill carriers. A particular concern is that a carrier and air wing alone cost $20 billion and 5,000 Americans live aboard. This is an enormous investment of eggs is a possibly fragile basket.
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5 comments:
Drone carrier is the next step !
I have advocated for a two class system for a while.
Many small conventionally powered aircraft carriers and a few absolutely massive ultra carriers able to deploy deep strike bombers.
Of course Arsenal ship will be a must also. The ability to ripple fire off 200 cheap cruise missiles at a time is a must to defeat modern air defenses.
Cruise missile swarms. Like the thousand bomber raids on German cities. Simply overwhelming.
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Drones are only as good as the cyber security built into the long communication links needed to send them aloft on a mission. But they will be heavily used in a peer to peer conflict. Possible by the tens of thousands. Imagine a freighter in the shipping lanes carrying 10 thousand 5lb suicide drones and as they near San Diego unleash them against the naval base for a surprise attack. They won't sink ships but will wreak their radar gear such as antennas. Ships out of commission for weeks or months. All of them at harbor.
Outside the box thinking is needed given the revolution underway in manufacturing(stinter), AI, drones, cheap rides to LEO and beyond, cube sats and so many more.
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