They misspelled disposable.
There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed (you’d be fortunate to get four of the eleven US carriers underway at once due to refitting and refueling maintenance cadence) can’t get near contested coastlines of sophisticated militaries like Russia and China but then again the Houthis in Yemen recently chased off a carrier battle group out of the Red Sea with no Navy whatsoever.
Go figure.
ADM Paparo: “Through the combination of counter-targeting, mobility, deception, electronic warfare, directed energy, and kinetic kill, a layered approach can provide defense-in-depth against and across enemy kill chains…”
Wrong, leakers in mass salvo competition will hit a part of the five acres of carrier deck. You don’t have to sink a carrier; reduce its speed by crippling a shaft or put a five degree list on it and it can’t launch aircraft. Or a Ford that can’t reliably launch and retrieve aircraft by design.
This tired and anachronistic apologia could have been written in the 1990s.
This is stunning and brave at the Naval Institute.
I am sure much applause happened off camera at the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition (ACIBC).
Stop building these twentieth century dinosaurs.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/july/aircraft-carriers-still-indispensable
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