• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We almost certainly have a defense against it and no one is making them in huge numbers anyway.

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      2 days ago

      It would cost around $800 million to make 40 of them. If someone shot 2 a piece at each of our aircraft carriers…

      New Carriers are around $120 billion before operation costs. So that’s $2.4 trillion is losses off a maybe $2 billion dollar investment by whichever country.

      I’d say aircraft carriers are a dying breed