Didn't give up, I just don't sit on my ass waiting for you to drool out some unintelligent prose.
No, not Patriots, there ARE other types of anti-missile ordinance.
Boy, why aren't you on the Joint Chiefs with all this great knowledge chuck? Do you understand what type of striking power a carrier hauls around? And do you think that carriers just float off by themselves to some Godforsaken enemy country? No, they called 'carrier groups' for a reason; a carrier travels with a wide array of support vessels, including your "smaller ships packin' cruise missles[sic]" Think about this: without carriers, how do we project our airborne Navy?
Greg_W