Why the US Navy is likely to retain supercarriers

Will the US Navy keep building supercarriers, switch to smaller carriers, or stop carrier construction?

It will probably retain supercarriers because their air-wing capacity supports many simultaneous missions that smaller decks cannot match.

A roughly ninety-aircraft carrier has room for strike fighters and fleet air-defense aircraft alongside airborne early warning, electronic warfare, and other specialist support. One proposed allocation divides that capacity into groups of eighteen, allowing substantial strike strength while retaining the aircraft needed to support it. That flexibility gives large carriers a practical reason to survive alongside their status value. A carrier's useful life also depends on what successive generations of aircraft can do. Uncrewed aircraft still need fuel, maintenance, and rearmament, so removing their pilots does not remove the need for a flight deck. Continued American supercarrier construction is therefore expected as long as naval air power remains important.