Easily.

Hence the term “carrier group.”

And good afternoon.

You use, say, a swarm of drones controlled by a combination of human operators and computers.

They recently had a giant "light show skull thing" drawn on the night sky over Hollywood by thousands of computer controlled drones. Everyone has seen one of those shows by now.

On edit: That's the not-too-distant future. I wouldn't want to be in a speed boat crew working for the Iranian Islamic Republic. The arch-bigoted, thuggish, moronic, billionaire oligarchs in that regime sit comfortably far away from the fun.

I admit I may be missing something. but what?

... wherever it might be stationed.

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