The Navy Must Do More To Make Its Aircraft Carriers Less Vulnerable

[rangerrebew]

June 16, 2020

The Navy Must Do More To Make Its Aircraft Carriers Less Vulnerable

We need to carefully describe how we think about obsolescence.
by Robert Farley 
 

The United States has decided to spend many billions of dollars on the CVN-78 (“Ford”) 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/navy-must-do-more-make-its-aircraft-carriers-less-vulnerable-162888

[Fishrrman]

An aircraft carrier is "vulnerable" simply because it is what it is.

And in the years to come, large floating objects like it are going to become MORE vulnerable, not less so...

[ironhorsedriver]

Carriers move with their own Air Force, surrounded by very capable escorts. E2's fly with very long range radar, escorting destroyers and cruisers have Aegis. An Attack Boat, at least one, silently cruises underneath the Group. Any ship is vulnerable in war, but, a Carrier Battle Group is not nearly as vulnerable as it appears.

[GtHawk]

An aircraft carrier is "vulnerable" simply because it is what it is.

And in the years to come, large floating objects like it are going to become MORE vulnerable, not less so...

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