Re: Not enough energy
"A mission-ready F-35B or indeed any existing strike fighter can weigh up to 25 tonnes loaded for a mission and can require the plane to be travelling at over 150mph at the end of the catapult to clear the front of the carrier successfully and avoid becoming a sea dart (tm)."
Sea dart or not, It's going to need that vertical landing capability to dodge the holes in the deck after the DF21-D or DF26s have paid a visit.
Battleships were obsolete by 1925, but kept being made for quite a while after that - pretty much until a wee party in 1941 made the point they'd had their day.. Aircraft carriers have passed that knee point too (having a swedish submarine sneak up and "sink" an American supercarrier was a wakeup call for them too, but that's not the primary direction they're vulnerable from ) "Projecting power" is of no use whatsoever if you're forced to keep your boats a "safe distance offshore" that happens to be beyond the operational range of the aircraft that fly off it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
