The “Future Carrier 2030 Task Force” was asked to test how large, nuclear-powered carriers might stack up against the new generation of long-range precision weapons being fielded by China and Russia. Navy secretary called a halt to a study on the future of the country’s fleet of 11 aircraft carriers. In stark contrast, last month the incoming U.S. Fisher did not want their creativity constrained by traditions and legacy designs. ” His point was to break his team away from orthodox thinking and to encourage them to develop new ideas.
Sir John “Jackie” Fisher, said that “in approaching … ship design, the first essential is to divest our minds totally of the idea that a single type of ship as now built is necessary, or even advisable. In guiding his design teams for the crucial Royal Navy reforms in 1905 - an effort that produced HMS Dreadnought and a new generation of battlecruisers - Britain’s First Sea Lord, Adm.
