[atemerev]

Makes sense, thank you. Especially enlightening on the role of big ships.

Regarding datalinks — AFAIK, modern platforms streaming realtime and sensor feeds for humans in the loop, and bandwidth requirements for these are huge. If most non-combat decisions are taken autonomously, you can downstream only basic telemetry and go / no go requests. In serious jamming conditions, getting even 1 bit of information through can be beneficial ("proceed with mission plan A" / "proceed with mission plan B").