>>64093523
Aircraft carriers are large. That means they can handle large power requirements, as well as large pieces of equipment. In order for a drone to be a viable threat it must be able to counter those countermeasures which it will meet, in turn increasing its size, complexity, logistics, and finally cost.
This is the endless game of Armor vs Weapon, Sensor vs Sensor. Maneuver vs Prediction.
Aircraft carriers for small nations, will remain a propaganda tool for their public, while aircraft carriers for larger nations will remain a tool for power and policy projection.
Spain's carrier was what? A flagship for a thing that will never happen; a combined EU who can't even agree of a common platform. By the time it gets in the water, and by the time they show domestic production, it will be worthless against their imagined enemy of the US, or an east asian enemy.
Perhaps on the micro they imagine they can rise to regional prominence in the med, but there is the problem. The carrier will compete against technology and weapons from the larger nations, without any effective logistics, technology, and support like they have. It's a target.
Sometimes you accept that you are a DeFacto vassal. Sometimes you cry about it and are still a DeFacto vassal.
