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Aircraft Carriers: Obsolete Like Battleships or Still Kings of the Ocean?
« on: March 02, 2025, 06:16:44 am »

Aircraft Carriers: Obsolete Like Battleships or Still Kings of the Ocean?
Story by Robert Farley • 6mo

Summary and Key Points on Aircraft Carriers You Need to Know: Despite predictions of obsolescence, aircraft carriers remain central to modern naval strategy due to their military utility and prestige. Carriers provide mobile airfields capable of projecting power, even in the face of advanced anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) systems.


-The availability of platforms like the F-35B further enhances their operational relevance. Additionally, carriers symbolize national power and global influence, motivating countries like China, India, and the UK to invest in them.

-While some nations, such as Russia and Brazil, have scaled back carrier programs due to cost, many others continue to see carriers as essential to their naval and geopolitical ambitions.
 
Aircraft Carriers: Military Power or Mere Prestige?
If aircraft carriers are obsolete, then why do so many countries continue to build and buy them?

The question goes to the core of modern naval procurement, and not just in the United States. The People’s Liberation Army has assembled a vast array of systems designed to destroy aircraft carriers and thus deter them from entering contested waters. At the same time, the PLAN is in the process of fitting out its third (and largest) carrier, with additional vessels apparently on the way.

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Re: Aircraft Carriers: Obsolete Like Battleships or Still Kings of the Ocean?
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2025, 08:51:34 am »
Obsolete.  Submarines and fast stealthy cruisers, destroyers, and drones are the future of blue water naval warfare.
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Re: Aircraft Carriers: Obsolete Like Battleships or Still Kings of the Ocean?
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2025, 09:25:31 am »
Quote from: Timber Rattler on March 02, 2025, 08:51:34 am
Obsolete.  Submarines and fast stealthy cruisers, destroyers, and drones are the future of blue water naval warfare.

They were well on their way 50 years ago when I was aboard one.


Anything other than these isn't much more than target practice.
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Re: Aircraft Carriers: Obsolete Like Battleships or Still Kings of the Ocean?
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2025, 01:30:23 pm »
With carrier borne stealth tankers...and air launched weapons with serious stand-off range, maybe power could be projected far enough to remain relevant without being a target, but that is only two dimensions of three, and submarine/water borne drone weapons will remain or become a threat as well.
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