It is widely acknowledged in war-fighting circles that America's aircraft careers are only useful in policing actions - i.e. to be used as a threat of war, and

It is widely acknowledged in war-fighting circles that America's aircraft careers are only useful in policing actions - i.e. to be used as a threat of war, and not actually of any use in conditions of total war, since they are big, fat, slow moving high-value targets that can easily be taken out with widely deployed missiles designed for the job - i.e. the P-270 MOSKIT (SS-N-22 Sunburn) missiles, which Russia developed specifically to counter the threat. Americans don't like to be told this, nor will they work to understand it beyond a glib "America, Fuck yeah!" style response, but the American naval surface fleet is probably one of the first casualties in an all-out war. The MOSKIT is deployed specifically to target these carriers, and there is - so far - no defence against them. Laser-based defences are being developed to defend against the threat, but are not widely deployed across the fleet. America will lose its carriers in the first minutes of all-out war. http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carriers-will-die/ http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carrier...