The anti ship missiles deployed there were also used against much smaller ships. If modern carriers have the same quality of damage control as previous ones, t

The anti ship missiles deployed there were also used against much smaller ships. If modern carriers have the same quality of damage control as previous ones, they should be able to survive some hits; we can see from WWII how carriers were able to survive hits by kamikaze aircraft carrying a lot more explosives than one of the Exocet missiles used in the Falklands war