[monocasa]

I'm not sure where you're getting your information. Naval warfare has had more changes in the past 100 years then nearly any other point history. Like 100 years ago they didn't have aircraft carriers, the keel of the first one was laid 1924, and it wouldn't be until near the end of the Pacific theater that the supremacy of the carrier group was proven.

Like, your whole argument is equally applicable to torpedoes, except those are even harder to hit.

[ryanmercer]

>Like, your whole argument is equally applicable to torpedoes, except those are even harder to hit.

Torpedos can cost a million bucks each, a stolen/commandeered/seized speedboat is free.

Torpedos are covered under ITAR and require quite a bit of sophistication to manufacture and are effectively limited to nations. Anyone can obtain a speedboat, or a dozen speedboats, and deploy them. Kinda like when the USS Cole was successfully attacked, leaving a 40x60 foot hole in the side, by a small fiberglass boat carrying several hundred pounds of explosives and modern day pirates usually use small fishing boats.

[monocasa]

The Cole was literally moored for refueling, not quite at peak readiness, and not really what we're talking about here.

But the whole point of how carrier defenses work is to not wait until they're literally on top of you (like on your example of shooting your own ships). Speed boats are stupid loud on SONAR, so you should detect and destroy them before they can even see the carrier group.