We can barely build FFGs, to say nothing of bigger drone carriers that would still be dwarfed by aircraft carriers.
replySo you'd say, OK, what drones can we launch from the tiny fiberglass-hulled small craft that we can build lots of, but the issue is that such drones will be very small and will necessarily have ineffectively small payloads to suit.
sure but that's the purpose of most drones. If you want big ordinance then that's why you have the carriers and the planes and missiles.
replyI'm just saying that a carrier is probably the wrong footprint for something that serves up drones.