How Important Are Aircraft Carriers in a War?

An aircraft carrier like the iones vicrand would cost approximately three billion dollars on the lower scale, or five to sixbillion dollars on the higher scale. Most countries can't afford to have that. When you spend so much money on a single ship, you're concentrating a lot of your litrality,. of your navy's litrality and investment in one single ship. So it is very hard to defend an aircraft carrier. And it's a simple mathematical thing. You can overwhelm any defence when you have more messiles than the defence can cater for. I don't understand india's obsession, thethe indian navy's obsession with aircraft carriers. Why is it that in 19