The surface fleet most certainly has done it before. U.S. surface ships used to carry nuclear Tomahawks, depth charges, torpedoes and surface to air missiles.

The surface fleet most certainly has done it before. U.S. surface ships used to carry nuclear Tomahawks, depth charges, torpedoes and surface to air missiles. Carriers carried nuclear gravity bombs. This all ended in 1991, but many of the same ships are still in service.