The USS Jeffrey Michener, which appears to be one of the new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, is shown heading into the warzone with an empty flight deck, there are no planes or helicopters on deck. There are hangers below deck for repairing and maintaining aircraft, but they can only hold a portion of the carriers complement of aircraft. An aircraft carrier without fighters, gunships and helicopters is next to useless in a battle, carriers themselves have no offensive weaponry, only defensive. These carriers have two deck mounted missile launchers that fire Sea-Sparrow surface to air missiles for defense against aircraft and RIM-16 Rolling Airframe Missiles which are point-defense weapons for shooting down anti-ship missiles. They also have three 20mm Phalanx CIWS point-defense cannons for shooting down hostile aircraft and missiles at close-range. So it could help defend against attacking aircraft and missiles, but would not be able to help with offensive attacks.