Not at all. You have to have them for a blue water navy. If they were obsolete, you wouldn’t see the Chinese trying to

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Oct 24, 2024
9:38:07pm

specsauce All-American

Not at all. You have to have them for a blue water navy. If they were obsolete, you wouldn’t see the Chinese trying to

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POLL: Are aircraft carriers obsolete?

Oct 24, 9:33pm

I feel like I never see them anymore.

DieHarder

Oct 24, 9:34pm

If you ever saw them regularly consider yourself lucky.

Yiowa

Oct 24, 9:37pm

Not at all. You have to have them for a blue water navy. If they were obsolete, you wouldn’t see the Chinese trying to

specsauce

Oct 24, 9:38pm

In a nuclear conflict? Yeah. But most conflicts aren’t and will never be nuclear. Projecting force is crucial.

WP17

Oct 24, 9:40pm

Not yet. But they will be obsolete in our kids' lifetimes.

Mike Bolton

Oct 24, 9:46pm

Because we will have those floating carriers from Avengers?

UNLVcougar

Oct 24, 9:52pm

Launching things to space is getting cheap. Manned aircraft will be obsolete.

Mike Bolton

Oct 24, 9:57pm

I doubt it. Every major nation is mass building them right now.

The Pope

Oct 24, 10:14pm

They will soon be obsolete. China will be able to sink them.

Plantagenet

Oct 24, 10:43pm

Drones are changing everything

TNT

Oct 24, 11:12pm

It depends on what we are trying to do, but against China and Russia, basically yes.

Brisket

12:29am

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