A look at where the Navy's 11 aircraft carriers are now

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy is weighing what to do about the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which has been battling Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea for nearly nine months. The question is how to replicate the carrier’s combat power if the ship returns home.

The service has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Generally, they are getting ready to deploy, are deployed or have come off deployment and have gone in for maintenance and repairs.

The carriers have a lifespan of about 50 years, and halfway through they undergo a major overhaul of their nuclear and other systems, which can take several years.

Here’s a look at where the Navy’s carriers are now:

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[brush]

1. Do the carriers have an iron-dome-type security umbrella...

of their planes, radar, other ships and their in the task force to protet them from distant missile and drone attacks?

It's a question worth asking as just as carriers replaced and made battleships obsolete decades ago, have moder, remote weapon systems done the same to aircraft carriers and made them vulnerable?

[sarisataka]

2. The carrier's protection

Is their planes and escorts. The Aegis cruisers and destroyers can engage many targets at the same time. All the ships have close-in weapons systems for anything that may leak through.

[brush]

3. Thank you. What's the carrier/cruiser/destroyer group called?

[sarisataka]

4. They are usually referred to as a carrier battle group

abbreviated CVBG

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. A "carrier strike group".

[Irish_Dem]

5. I don't understand why another carrier could not have been sent to replace the Ike.

Other carriers were just doing routine patrol and could be moved?

[jrandom421]

7. One already has

The USS Theodore Roosevelt has been ordered to the Red Sea. Should be there sometime this week.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Thank goodness.