There is concern that US aircraft carriers are vulnerable to a barrage of long-range anti-ship ballistic missiles such as the DF-21D: https://en.wikipedia.org/

There is concern that US aircraft carriers are vulnerable to a barrage of long-range anti-ship ballistic missiles such as the DF-21D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21 If the carriers are vulnerable then they need to stay very far away which limits the combat effectiveness of its aircraft since they must now deploy from very far away.