re: #103 Dark_Falcon

Our destroyers and cruisers are far from ‘sitting ducks’: They fairly bristle with weapons for engaging targets from missiles and aircraft, to small boats, to other ships, and to land targets.

No, but the carriers probably are. In the long term we need to change the way we do them and the move to UAV’s will drive it. We might keep one or two traditional ones the way we kept the Iowa class but ships the size of the old escort carriers and submersible (while still operating the UAV assets) will be the future of naval aviation.