The Sea Control Concept...This is not the first go around for the navy with these types of concepts. The designs are viable and the USS Guam proved it successful in the sense they could support the mission sets their air wings were designed for in her case it was ASW.
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I am aware. Zumwalt pushed the idea in the 1970s and then when the VSTOL XVF-12 'cratered,' the SCS was concept was shelved. Now we have a VSTOL that might work, but the problem may be as soon as China has a 5th gen on her decks with a catapult, the SCS will be woefully outgunned.