Modern warships drone how to#
How to make sure the swarm is sufficiently intact to hurt the aircraft carrier when they get there? If you choose stealth, you have abandoned cheap, which makes a swarm very hard. Now the question becomes: launched from where? If these are extremely long range drones, that comes at a premium - this is like electric car batteries, only more so. can’t an enemy send tons of cheap drone planes and drone submarines to first hunt for its location and then swarm-attack it? Why is this a conversation now and not thirty years ago? Because the stuff used to find and knock out large warships from land is now cheap enough that middle-weight countries can afford them. In the case of US Navy aircraft carriers, they are further surrounded by other large warships, each among the most powerful of their type. Are they super vulnerable? No they are very large warships, usually have better signal and detection capability, and have aircraft to use for defense. They appear to be:Ĭonsidering both of these questions might lead to a natural third question:Īnother thing we want to be specific about is: whose aircraft carriers? Most of the answers and possibly also the question implicitly assume the United States, but a US Navy aircraft carrier and anyone else's aircraft carrier are very different propositions.įundamentally yes they are large warships and large warships can be sunk. You have two separate questions at work here, and I think we would benefit from disentangling them.
TL DR: No, but they are much more vulnerable than they used to be, and the number of nations which can threaten them is increasing because the threats are getting cheaper to deploy.
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