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To: bentway who wrote (77581)	6/14/2018 5:26:11 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 364961

We are still aways from having a technological equal. And the missiles aren't an existential threat. Yet. But they will be. A really fancy missile is, at most, several 10s of millions of dollars. A Ford class carrier is $4 billion, plus or minus. And that doesn't count the carrier group or the aircraft. If the carrier is toast, those other things are not as useful. So the math looks really bad. There is talk of having a larger number of smaller ships. But the Navy isn't really happy with that idea either. A The problem, of course, is that the Navy has been structured around powerful capital ships surrounded by a bunch of smaller ships to protect and support the capital ships for centuries. And when you reach Admiral, you get to ride in those capital ships and give orders. Prior technology might have changed some of those characteristics, but the overall structure stayed the same. But computers are challenging that structure. So missiles and drones are going to change the way things are done.