Aircraft carriers are seen as the ultimate symbol of naval power, but how can this be when some regard them to be so vulnerable?
In part, due to the advent of advanced anti-ship missiles - such as China's DF-21D and Russia's P800 Oniks- capable of defeating carrier defenses and dealing significant incidental damage.
Subsurface threats Zapfish Aircraft carrier predators quietly equipped with torpedoes in steal Everything comes up under water.
Anything from a complex electronic trickery or cyber-attack that can degrade an aircraft carrier and leave it vulnerable unable to communicate nor defend itself.
Aircraft carriers, however, have layered defense systems which shield them from such threats by destroyers submarines and advanced radar missile interceptors improving their immunity.
Despite the fact that their invincibility is challenged by currents threats, aircraft carriers are assets more necessary than ever however and do not have weakness other then being weak on its own without a group defense network.

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