manqiangrexue
Brigadier
If you need to invest more than 3 carriers to this mission, it's already cooked. What's the plan? Keep making $20B carrier packages with 4K sailors on them that can be killed by a single ASBM to try to stop shipping from the US to Japan??
Carriers are more expensive and not expendable. When the option exists to blast all of Japan's ports with missiles, why would you consider doing something so risky and out of our element?
You can either detect these aircraft in which case you can shoot them down in Asia and over Japan or you can't detect them in which case, even if your carriers aren't all taken out, you still couldn't try to blockade stealth aircraft over the vast expanses of the open sea.
Once again, missiles to take out all air bases in Japan is how to do it. If you want to block shipping from the US to Japan with aircraft carriers, you are talking about dealing with far inferior nations. When China has the power to talk down to the US like some junior country acting out, then we can block them with a carrier and it will be the threat of what happens to them if that carrier is attacked or sanctions violated more than the power of the actual carrier that produces the effect.
With missiles. You wanna neutralize Alaska and Hawaii with carriers??? The US would have to have been beaten to pre-surrender WWII Japan state before you can do that to them.
Bu they won't do that, because those resources are far better-used on other equipment. Eventually, to put the final nail in American global power, China will build a significant aircraft carrier fleet. But because their use is very limited and they are considered glass jaws in high intensity peer conflict, China will focus more on technologies that risk less to do more damage at least until the US is definitively supplanted.
America is very badly overextended and overinvested economically in a navy that is structurally incorrect to fight a modern high intensity peer level war. China is not going to take their numbers and just multiply them by true PPP to see what we can should build. We don't copy other people's homework and accept all their flaws with it.