Report: U.S. aircraft carriers’ ‘unchallenged primacy may be coming to a close’

Naval Proceedings and many other defense sources have been talking about the vulnerability of the fleet carriers to Land Based Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles (as well as other threats) for years now. Their has been a steady drum beat to shift our reliance on super carriers to smaller "more survivable" aircraft carriers. What say you community. Has the big fleet carrier, like the Battleships before them, come to the end of their days???

"As other countries focus on creating sophisticated A2/AD bubbles by using new technology such as drones, advanced missiles and newer aircraft, the United States — by operating as it always has — is putting itself more at risk. According to the report, this is particularly relevant as carrier groups have reduced their long-range strike ability in favor of being able to fly more air missions but at shorter ranges.

“Operating the carrier in the face of increasingly lethal and precise munitions will thus require the United States to expose a multi-billion dollar asset to high levels of risk in the event of a conflict,” the report says. “An adversary with A2/AD capabilities would likely launch a saturation attack against the carrier from a variety of platforms and directions. Such an attack would be difficult — if not impossible — to defend against.”