76 - Are Aircraft Carriers Becoming Obsolete?
The Red Line
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The Floating Fortress, Part 1
Will the thing to kill the United States super carrier be the missiles, the subs or just the plain economics of war? That's the question we're attempting to answer this week. To help us figure out how we got here, we don't do our first guest. Part 1, the floating fortress. Or the gun armed capital ship and what would later be known as the battleship previously,. The galleon was seen as the ultimate arbiter of decision-making at sea. And now on top of that, the latest range of hypersonic missiles deemed to be carrier killers.
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