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    honest question doesn’t aircraft carriers serves mostly to bully small and underdeveloped nations?

    like, something that size and slow, seems like a easy target for any decent navy or air force

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        Also want to point out that this is almost all theoretical doctrine. There hasn’t really been peer-level fleet combat since WW2 so realistically we can only guess at what kind of doctrine and weapons work and which don’t.

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        Against an enemy using conventional naval forces and tactics aircraft carriers are king.

        What do you mean by “conventional naval forces” here? WW2 dreadnought? Or something like this, specifically with anti-ship missiles to kill carrier groups?

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        Not really true, Swedes of all people proven several years ago that even farily cheap conventional submarines can be very dangerous to US carriers, and lots of navies have those.

        If you’re going for a “decent navy” plan, there is hardly any better use for your money than ordering few Kilo II subs or similar.

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            We are not talking about any conquering here though. And btw you can’t conquer anything with a carrier either, it’s pure racket weapon.

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                Yeah but also on very small scale since each LHA can carry 1687 marines without heavy support. And there are 9 of them currently, so using just them and other ships for support they can conquer some islands or make a shore landing at most. That make them also mostly a terror weapon, like the XV - XIX century raids colonizers did. Not a serious conquering like in Iraq.

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            you cant conquer things with weapons, that’s not how you occupy/hold land. the only thing that works is boots.

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        All you need is a lot of cheap, shitty missiles on a lot of cheap, shitty platforms. Three dudes on one dinghy will get got by the .50 cals, 25mm, and Phalanxes (they learned from the Cole in the Gulf of Aden). Lots of dudes on lots of cheap, fast boats with the cheapest, most basic anti-ship missiles will take out any modern surface navy ship. The IRGCN swarm tactics will work.

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      Yes, US military is geared for that, the fact revealed by the ammunition and supply debacle in the Ukraine war.

      Carriers are used for the good old gunboat diplomacy.

      And it’s not only even hypersonic missiles that are danger to them. Quite long time ago Swedish navy proven during the NATO maneuvers that competently used non-nuclear submarine can sink the carrier too. There’s also strange coincidence between Iran proving they have working supercavitating torpedoes and USN reluctance to sail the carriers into Persian Gulf. Btw NATO still don’t have such torpedoes too while USSR had them since 1977.

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      That is the US’s MO for their wars. To be fair, that has been the vast majority of conflicts they have engaged in so it makes a certain degree of sense. They are the world’s playground bully.