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The US definitely has the best Navy. Until the carrier has been dethroned as king of the sea, the US will have among the best if not the best Navy's. Most other nations carriers are the size of our assault ships(that operate the harrier and soon to be the F-35, Osprey, etc). They typically hold about 40 aircraft. No one currently and in the near future will have a carrier that will be able to go against our fleet or super carriers that can carry 90+ aircraft. Not only are they smaller, but they only have about 2 carriers if that compared to our 9 currently in commission.

The only nation that I can see being able to compete with our Navy in the future is China. They will be the only ones to have the resources to build and operate nuclear powered super carriers that could go up against a Nimitz and Ford class carrier.