Study: U.S. Aircraft Carriers Must Evolve or Die

Top to bottom: USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) alongside Nimitz class carriers USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) & USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). Pinterest

Michael Peck, National Interest: U.S. Aircraft Carriers Must Evolve or Die: Study

U.S. aircraft carriers must either adopt new tactics and equipment for twenty-first-century warfare—or prepare to be sunk.

That’s the essence of a new study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments , which examined the air wings aboard U.S. carriers.

The problem is that the Navy carrier groups are using Cold War equipment and tactics designed to intercept and destroy lumbering Soviet bombers before they came within two hundred miles of a task force.

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WNU Editor:  Will the U.S. Navy learn and evolve? I hope the Navy will learn and evolve when it is too late.

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