"In question" != "proven." Sure, Tom Clancy wrote a whole chapter on what would or wouldn't have happened if the Backfires had sortied from Murmansk. But it's funny how the people who push the idea of carriers being obsolete are the military equivalent of the chattering classes, not the people whose job it is to fight and win wars.
The survivability of aircraft carriers in modern warfare has been in question since the 1980s.
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa134.pdf
"In question" != "proven." Sure, Tom Clancy wrote a whole chapter on what would or wouldn't have happened if the Backfires had sortied from Murmansk. But it's funny how the people who push the idea of carriers being obsolete are the military equivalent of the chattering classes, not the people whose job it is to fight and win wars.
Armchair admirals can pontificate all they want.
That doesn’t necessarily make it uninteresting. One can always learn from surprises by competitors, military or commercial.