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USS Carl Vinson is the carrier that was supposedly sent towards Korea. Here are a few points that you should consider before ridiculing anyone.
USS Carl Vinson is a hundred thousand ton supper carrier (this is almost 8 times the tonnage of our entire navy) carrying around 90 fixed wing and rotary aircraft!!! This is almost two times the number carried by any other carrier outside USA so please do not consider just another carrier and try to understand where we actually stand.
Secondly, @pakistanipower is right, carriers do need 3-4 FFG, DDG for protection against missile attacks and aerial threats as well as surface and sub-surface dangers. That is the reason the aircraft carriers operate in carrier strike groups. USS Carl Vinson is also equipped with two GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYERS and one GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER!
These are no ordinary boats either. Just to give you an idea, the guided missile cruiser is armed with 2 x 61cell VLS, that is 122 missile cells in total. Guns, CIWS, Torpedo tubes are in addition to these 122 cells, not to mention 8 harpoon missiles too. For a quick comparison, the ada class corvettes or its second cousin LF2400 that PN is reportedly interested in as there NEXT BIG PROJECT have a 16 cell VLS. It will take some 8-10 boats to meet the kind of fire power the mentioned cruiser in strike group have AND, that is just one ship, there are two more destroyers there as well with almost equally impressive payload. So if someone mentioned how 3-4 FFG DDG are required to protect the carrier rather than making fun of them please understand what they are saying. The truth is that out entire naval surface force may not be able to match the fire power of couple of these ships.
Another important thing you should note is that, despite this carrier being accompanied by three heavy US ships the fire power of which i have briefly mentione, Japan, a key US ally will also sending its surface ships to the area when US navy is deployed there.
For submarines, please note that they will never be declared as subs are supposed to be the silent warriors. However be assured that submarines are an integral part of any such deployment.
@fatman17 @araz @Bilal Khan (Quwa)
It would have been better if you go through our entire conversation. According to his logic Aircraft Carrier is useless and I just ask him to tell me how many submarines were moving with Carl Vinson.
Secondly, I think you don't know that we were discussing 2030 not today.