Are Aircraft Carrier any use against against a military like CHINA or RUSSIA ?

[asad71]

I do have a question though as to it's place in the force demonstration hierarchy. We all know they that any direct conflict b.w Russia, China and US would involve heightened risk of nuclear exchange and which is the precisely the reason that since WW2 while there have been multiple skirmishes by way of proxies - each party has time and again stepped back from the brink.

So while AC might be great for strategic purposes like force projection, controlling or denying SLOC, bombing far off smaller countries with minimal logistics and can be considered as extension of deterrent measures - they are unlikely to see any real action which might leave them vulnerable.

1.Initial purpose of the AC was to have a mobile air-field. Now it has evolved into much more than that. However, some observers have been seeing the development of long range aircraft and mid-air refueling as the end of the AC. This is not happening - at least not very soon. Superpowers use carrier groups to project their power and assure their authority.
2. Beside the AC or ACs, the carrier group will have other naval craft like supply ships, frigates / corvettes, destroyers, subs, missile boats and much more. There would be around 7,500 Marines fully equipped to be launched at a desired location. The aircraft on board, the AC herself and accompanying ships would carry missiles including nuclear armed. In short the carrier group is a true strategic force in the hands of the higher authority - something that the naval thinker Mahan had dreamed about.

 

[Penguin]

I wouldn't write the aircraft carrier's obituary just yet. Yes, something that falls on you out of the sky at Mach 10 is pretty damn tough to dodge or shoot down. But targeting systems would be its vulnerability.

Would an aircraft carrier be any use against a military like USA? How about UK or France or even Brazil?

 

[BoQ77]

"To whom, US aircraft carriers and LHD/LHA used against in Asia Pacific" if it isn't China?
- North Korea ?
- Vietnam ?
- Japan ?
- South Korea ?
- Taiwan ?

1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis

On 27 November 1995, Nimitz deployed to the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf with Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9). In March 1996, it patrolled the waters off Taiwan amid missile tests conducted by the Chinese in the area, becoming the first American warship to pass through the Taiwan Strait since 1976.