That being said, after the REPEATED punk rhetoric from Kim Jong Un alluding to wartime footing for his country, a provocative intrusive military move like this is sure to prompt a forceful response of some type. We have harbored trepidations on SAFETY of Nimitz and Ford class aircraft carriers in the new age of satellite, drone and hypersonic missile weaponry and are CONCERNED that having FIVE carriers in close proximity for the first time in decades may invite a robust attack utilizing these new weapons that our adversaries have been training for and are keen to gauge their effectiveness.
Like the mighty battleships of WW2 rendered obsolete almost overnight after the June 1942 Battle of Midway which in one fell stroke rendered the vaunted Royal Imperial Japanese Navy gutted and made them play defense for the rest of the war till MacArthur sailed into Tokyo Bay on 9/2/1945 and demanded TOTAL surrender on the soon to be obsolete but recently launched battleship Missouri, carriers in this new age of tech weapons appear (on the surface at least, no pun intended) to be potential sitting ducks. Even with the battle group supports embedded in the carrier fleets, no guarantees. Pray those potential confrontations can be averted.
Half of Nuclear Carriers Headed to the Korean Peninsula, What’s the Plan? (msn.com)