you are just shortsighted instead of 70 planes a carrier could have 5000 drones for cheaper, doing the same operations and far wider coverage. with about half the crew and thus cheaper operational costs, and if its lost, its a lot easier to eat the loss. they are all just delivery mechanisms, thats all a fighter plane or a drone is, a bomb uber.  you can go a step further and replace it all with missiles, assuming the corporations arent pricing them 500x more than they are worth to milk the government out of tax payers money. there is 0 reason for a tomahawk to cost 1 million per missile, $1000 in mats and production, at best, in an economy of scale instead of modern "boutique" western armies.  its about improving missile tech, making it cheaper and better explosives for bigger bang for weight-class.  make them stealthy too or just saturate the target.  missile carriers are the future, we just aren't quite there yet, drones are a decent step on the way.
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