The unfortunate fact that aircraft carriers are named after U.S. presidents (despite being technically obsolete plague ships that would be instantly sunk in a great power conflict) guarantees the fleet can only grow.https://twitter.com/PeterMartin_PCM/status/1252792476449959936 …
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How did a potential new challenge to the carriers become "expected part"? I concede I was wrong and there might be a treat but nowhere is it clear these ships are obsolete nor that it is "expected" they would be shot.
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It's not a potential new challenge, but a broadly deployed system. Moreover, an aircraft carrier was sunk in a 2002 exercise by an Iran-like adversary, which doesn't even have the hypersonic missile technology.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 …
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Hypersonics are experimental. Ballistics are a huge escalation, because 1/they are immediately detected, 2/there is no way to know if they have a nuclear payload or not, therefore targeted country may assume so and retaliate accordingly just in case. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10736700.2015.1117735?src=recsys&journalCode=rnpr20#_i5 …
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