Not if the carrier is basically a large cargo ship. Those hangar decks would be perfect for carrying a lot of vehicles and a ship like that can hold 5000 men or more. And remember its not coming to operate aircraft - if anything it may be a landing pad for whatever helos and planes can get enough fuel to land on it - i.e. AV-8, AH-64, etc..
And keep in mind - the US is supposedly powerful enough that in 300 years its the second biggest space power after the French. There is no way after an uber drought that kills off most of the remaining population and destroys almost all of its remaining military forces that happens. It would take hundreds of years before you had anything more powerful than horse cavalry carrying rifles with a loss of people and technology like that. There wouldnt be an America left - and a few thousand troops in Iran arent enough to rebuild the US all by themselves.
And I dont see the French and the UK rebuilding the US or offering much help to the pitiful few survivors - almost all of whom are sitting deep in the interior of the country and thus cut off from even the RDF guys doing anything.
As for directly contradicting canon - the canon also says every USN SSN is lost except one - I have talked to a bunch of guys about that including naval veterans and there is no way that happens. If a Soviet Boomer survived then a bunch of Ohios had to.
Especially since canon suggests (the Caribbean module for instance) that there are still operational submarines out there. Otherwise why do the French twice attack the Corpus Cristi - if all the subs are gone why are they looking for subs not just in the Med but in the Channel as well?
And really insisting on canon on a game that isnt being supported anymore is sort of like insisting that we all keep using card sorters and Commodore 64's instead of modern computers.
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