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Snippet from the article of which the author failed to provide a convincing argument on why his country (U.S.) must do away with building super carriers:
The supercarrier debate took on a new urgency after China
the Dong Feng DF-21D missile in 2010. The DF-21D is the
long-range precision missile developed specifically to target aircraft carriers. It was followed in 2020 by the longer-range
. Both
are nicknamed “carrier-killer.”
and
say they’re developing carrier-killers on the Chinese model, too.
We don’t know how capable these new missiles are; China has only conducted one known test on a moving target, back in 2020, and didn’t publicize the result, which probably means it failed. Still, missile-guidance technology has made enormous progress in recent years, and it stands to reason that the bigger an aircraft carrier is, the easier it will be for a carrier-killer to hit it.
“The march of technology,”
Navy Capt. Henry J. Hendrix, now retired, and Marine Lt. Col. J. Noel Williams, also retired, in the Naval Institute’s
Proceedings, “is bringing the supercarrier era to an end, just as the new long-range strike capabilities of carrier aviation brought on the demise of the battleship era in the 1940s.” Hendrix and Williams’s article was headlined “
.” It was published a dozen years ago. Since then, the Navy has allocated more than $50 billion toward building even more supercarriers. If we stopped building Ford Class supercarriers right now,
the Congressional Budget Office, we could save $18 billion over the next decade....
