The fact that aircraft carriers are slow is irrelevant, you won't ever get close enough to fire on them. Shhh!. Don't look now, but the range of most carrier-b

The fact that aircraft carriers are slow is irrelevant, you won't ever get close enough to fire on them. Shhh!. Don't look now, but the range of most carrier-based planes is roughly 800 miles. (The much-vaunted F35 is reported to have a range of only about 600* miles.) Many anti-shipping missiles have a range greater than 1000 miles. You do the math. * https://www.quora.com/Is-the-F-35Bs-combat-radius-450-550nm-from-a-ship-impressive-or-lacklustre-relative-to-other-carrier-based-platforms https://www.quora.com/Is-the-F-35Bs-combat-radius-450-550nm-...