National Security & Defense

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(112,630 posts) Sun Jun 23, 2024, 02:52 PM Jun 23

A look at where the Navy's 11 aircraft carriers are now

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy is weighing what to do about the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which has been battling Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea for nearly nine months. The question is how to replicate the carrier’s combat power if the ship returns home.

The service has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Generally, they are getting ready to deploy, are deployed or have come off deployment and have gone in for maintenance and repairs.

The carriers have a lifespan of about 50 years, and halfway through they undergo a major overhaul of their nuclear and other systems, which can take several years.

Here’s a look at where the Navy’s carriers are now:

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https://apnews.com/article/aircraft-carriers-usa-navy-e7904f8dd1ba1f65a9d07a31fd9fb8eb

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A look at where the Navy's 11 aircraft carriers are now (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 23 OP

Do the carriers have an iron-dome-type security umbrella... brush Jun 23 #1

The carrier's protection sarisataka Jun 23 #2

Thank you. What's the carrier/cruiser/destroyer group called? brush Jun 23 #3

They are usually referred to as a carrier battle group sarisataka Jun 23 #4

A "carrier strike group". LastDemocratInSC Jun 23 #6

I don't understand why another carrier could not have been sent to replace the Ike. Irish_Dem Jun 23 #5

One already has jrandom421 Jun 23 #7

Thank goodness. Irish_Dem Jun 23 #8

brush

(56,298 posts)

1. Do the carriers have an iron-dome-type security umbrella...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Jun 23, 2024, 03:29 PM

Jun 23

of their planes, radar, other ships and their in the task force to protet them from distant missile and drone attacks?

It's a question worth asking as just as carriers replaced and made battleships obsolete decades ago, have moder, remote weapon systems done the same to aircraft carriers and made them vulnerable?

sarisataka

(20,255 posts)

2. The carrier's protection

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 23, 2024, 03:43 PM

Jun 23

Is their planes and escorts. The Aegis cruisers and destroyers can engage many targets at the same time. All the ships have close-in weapons systems for anything that may leak through.