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• jorblumesea 6y ago
  Aircraft carriers are more for beating up on nations without substantial resources or power projection once waters have been cleared. Unless you're the US and could stand to lose a few. In a great power conflict, carriers are unlikely to be used in the opening salvos for most nations, since they only have a couple. They're large easy targets and wouldn't be risked.
• ceejayoz 6y ago
  > There have been multiple publicly known incidents where small submarines surfaced near a carrier without being noticed by any ship or submarine in the carrier group. I would expect this to be more difficult if the carrier group is on a wartime footing, though.
  • foepys 6y ago
    One of those incidents included a Chinese submarine that surfaced voluntarily 5 miles away. I don't think you can interpret this in any other way than as a demonstration of how they can stalk any carrier near their waters at any time without being noticed. In 2015 a 30 y/o French submarine "attacked" a US carrier as part of a military exercise where all participants should be on the highest alert. In 2004 a Swedish submarine did the same.