May 23, 2020
Are Aircraft Carriers The Best Way To Project American Power?
America's carriers are vulnerable.
by Robert Farley Follow drfarls on Twitter L
Here's What You Need To Remember: Just because flat-decked aircraft carrying ships will likely be with us does not mean that the Ford class, which emphasizes high-intensity, high technology warfare, represents an ideal investment of U.S. defense capital. The vulnerabilities of the big carriers are real, and the U.S. needs to either remedy those problems, or consider an alternative means of delivering ordnance.
The United States has decided to spend many billions of dollars on the CVN-78 (“Fordâ€) class of aircraft carriers to replace the venerable Nimitz class. The latter has served the U.S. Navy since 1975, with the last ship (USS George H. W. Bush) entering service in 2009. The Fords could be in service, in one configuration or another, until the end of the 21st century.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/are-aircraft-carriers-best-way-project-american-power-156771
