Aircraft carriers will always be needed. However, I doubt that the huge and vulnerable carriers of today have any future. Carriers designed not for manned air

Aircraft carriers will always be needed. However, I doubt that the huge and vulnerable carriers of today have any future. Carriers designed not for manned aircraft, but only for drones, missiles and guns would allow the use of a much greater number of small carriers instead of a few huge and expensive carriers. Such carriers could be mostly automated and they would need much smaller crews, instead of being floating cities.