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Originally Posted by Locke
And if people arent familiar with the Gerald Ford...
It'll mess you up.
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The American's have had some defence struggles lately, and a lot of devestating failures with the Littoral and Zumwalt class destroyers, there's also concerns about the future viability of carriers due to a lack of counter to hyper sonic missiles (Though there are some interesting concepts on the design board. but their Navy is still pretty untouchable.
Along with 1 Ford class carrier with 2 more coming, they still have 10 Nimitz class carriers that still pretty much outclass any other nations carriers.
But the use of F-35's to Wasp class assault ships gives a neat jeep carrier option to cover areas that might not need a full carrier battle group.
When you look at the super carrier concepts versus other carriers, there's nothing even close in capability. The Queen Elizabeth class for the British is incredibly innovative, and probably the second best carrier design in the world, but it doesn't have the range speed or compliment.
The biggest threat is the Chinese carrier program, and they're advancing quickly, but they are probably in a lot of ways 30 years behind where the American's are in terms of crews, technology and pure striking power.
Basically after WW2 The American's started dominating in the Pacific and Atlantic, and declared the games closed.