June 5, 2020
SUNK: 5 New Threats Have U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers Under Siege
More than hypersonic missiles.
by Robert Farley Follow drfarls on Twitter L
Here's What You Need To Remember: Aircraft carriers are instruments of geopolitical influence. As long as they serve usefully in that role, nations will seek means to neutralize them.
We know how to kill aircraft carriers—or at least we know how best to try to kill aircraft carriers. Submarine-launched torpedoes, cruise missiles fired from a variety of platforms and ballistic missiles can all give an aircraft carrier a very bad day. Of course, modern carriers have ways of defending themselves from all of these avenues of attack, and we don’t yet have any good evidence of the real balance between offensive and defensive systems.
But what of the future? How will we plan to kill carriers thirty years from now? Here are five problems that the next generation of aircraft-carrier architects will need to worry about.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/sunk-5-new-threats-have-us-navy-aircraft-carriers-under-siege-160706
