Do China’s Missiles Mean Aircraft Carriers are Now Obsolete?
The anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) systems around the world may indeed curb the effectiveness of the Ford-class, but the U.S. will still find uses for these ships.
Here's What You Need to Remember: The vulnerabilities of the big carriers are real, and the U.S. needs to either remedy those problems, or consider an alternative means of delivering ordnance.
The United States has decided to spend many billions of dollars on the CVN-78 (“Ford”) class of aircraft carriers to replace the venerable Nimitz class. The latter has served the U.S. Navy since 1975, with the last ship (USS George H. W. Bush) entering service in 2009. The Fords could be in service, in one configuration or another, until the end of the 21st century.