[Deschodt]

To Navy folks and Tom Clancy fans out there: Is the concept of the aircraft carrier still viable in this day and age ?

I know little of modern warfare, but it seems to me in an age of satellites (it's not like we're sending PBYs to find the Soryu), the carrier locations would be widely known to enemies, and they would be very vulnerable to a saturation of modern long range missile strikes, long distance air attacks, subs, and especially a very lucky houthi on a dinghy on a stormy night, or cheap a$$ drones sent in thousands, costing less than a round of phalanx (if that still exists)... Shoot, the brits who are good at navy stuff lost a ship against an old argentine Etendard plane armed with an Exocet missile in the falklands, imagine now.

I get the projection of power aspect in peace time, but in war time I "feel" Carriers are a giant target and would be the first ships to be sunk (or disabled).. I'm probably wrong, please enlighten me.