It is, or was, called MAD my friend. Google it. Besides, attack aircraft are not designed or intended for that. That is why they are termed "attack". The AC itself is not a defensive weapon, but once again, and I tire of repeating it, it is both a tactical and strategic weapom.Attack aircraft do not shoot down hypersonic missiles. 1.7 miles per secondNo, certainly not if the AC was alerted to attack, which it would invariable be. The carrier could launch nuclear-armed piloted aircraft from a point far closer than any ICBM and at equidistant from any incoming missile. If you understand anything, there is still a reason that trained individuals can react far better than a missile or drone.Exactly if a carrier is used on a hypersonic missile equipped nation the carrier will be sunk. That said the carrier has no value in this situationBut the attack would be launched, right?All those ships would be sunk in an hour after launching an attackIncorrect. This is not the 1940s where an AC has to be mere miles from a target. It is the only way to project power in areas where no land-based aircraft are possible, and carriers do not stand alone. Instead they are escorted by ships and in fact their own aircraft which are specialized at intercepting threats. Additionally, the act of assaulting an AC is an act of war, a tripwire in effect, which no country has the balls to do, perhaps not even in a Biden presidency.Face It, The Mighty U.S. Aircraft Carrier is Finished | The American Conservative
The first step is acknowledging that in a standoff, it could lose, and badly.www.theamericanconservative.com
Why A New Study Warns That Aircraft Carriers May Be Obsolete (Thanks To Russia And China)
Inexpensive Russian and Chinese weapons, such as cyberwar and antiship missiles, threaten the West’s reliance on expensive arms such as aircraft carriers.taskandpurpose.com
However is America still wants to invade third World nations like Vietnam and Afghanistan or Somalia a carrier could still be useful. However if the USA attacked China or Russia with a carrier the ship would be sunk in under an hour by land based anti ship missiles that number in the thousands
Aircraft carriers, like submarines are purely offensive. It is the primary reason they are the most powerful weapon in the world besides nuclear, biological or chemical all of which carriers could theoretically deliver.
As I said, they are offensive weapons.
You'll get it soon, maybe.
Regardless, I am tiring of this.