Aircraft Carriers
topic on 8 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
American Optimist 
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Lenny's Podcast 
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the a16z Podcast 
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8 statements about Aircraft Carriers, every show
Azhnyuk: Warfare has shifted from multi-billion platforms to rapidly iteratable mass
“It's no longer about an aircraft carrier that costs whatever, fourteen billion dollars, and takes forever to build. It's about mass, ah, that is, you can iterate on very quickly, you can upgrade it, everyone can operate it, and then that mass, when it is combi…”
Kalinowski: The US must invest significantly more in drones than aircraft carriers
“I think he's right to say that we need to invest a lot more in drones than in aircraft carriers.”
Harrison: China developed $15M to $20M missiles capable of destroying US carriers
“The Chinese have developed missiles that they affectionately refer to as carrier killers, that literally it's, I mean, these still might be fairly expensive missiles, right, these are 15, twenty million dollar missiles, But they can destroy a multi-billion dol…”
Epstein: Nuclear energy lacks viable portability for general transport in near future
“They don't even have a portability solution though for the near future, unless you're talking about aircraft carrier or an icebreaker or something like that.”
Hoffman: US should stop building aircraft carriers vulnerable to $2M hypersonic missiles
“We should not be building aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers themselves cost billions, The planes on them are more billions. They put, you know, thousands of American lives on them, and in the modern world, you have to, like, sure, an aircraft carrier is gre…”
Modern Aircraft Carriers Cost Ten Billion Dollars and Take Ten Years
“Today, the U.S. Navy has 11 aircraft carriers. They cost ten billion dollars, and they take 10 years to make.”
Tseng: Aircraft carriers and expensive jets will be destroyed quickly in major conflict
“What's really interesting to me is how the defense market is transforming. And moving away from exquisite capital assets like aircraft carriers, like ships, like very, very expensive fighter jets or very, very expensive drones. And they're moving away from it …”
US aircraft carriers are extremely vulnerable and not designed for peer conflicts
“They are extremely vulnerable to the point where we feel like we can't use them. The problem is aircraft carriers were not designed to be a peer-to-peer a peer-to-peer great powers tool for us to go toe-to-toe with the Soviets or the Chinese.”