Coordinating attacks across a dispersed carrier group

How do long-range missiles and the need for concentrated salvos change carrier-strike-group employment?

Attacks can be timed together, with escorts or pickets moving forward when useful and the group spread over a wide area.

Missile salvos can be coordinated with the rest of a carrier group's attack, although mass firing is not presented as an absolute requirement. Escorts or pickets may move toward the threat to launch their weapons. The group normally operates across a wide area, with the choice of launch positions depending on the situation. Close formations used for photographs bring the ships together much more tightly than they normally sail. Images that include supply ships in the centre and a surfaced submarine nearby should be read as photographic arrangements.