I think the mildly interesting thing here is that your galaxy S 2 still works <| sep |> Thing is , that will be a problem regardless of what approach is taken . The question is how to effectively and efficiently deal with it . Missiles will always pose a problem to anything that tries to provide coastal support , be it an aircraft carrier or a ship . Thus the question becomes how to best deal with it . Well , you ideally want the most cost effective option . And for this the Zumwalt is just the much better choice . Why ? Well 1 You don ' t have to risk expensive planes that would be more useful elsewhere . You also don ' t have to pay expensive maintenance fees and you can deliver fire power at literally any moment with minimal delay , whereas aircraft take a sizable amount of time to prep , take off , reach their targets , etc . 2 The munitions you are delivering are practically impossible to intercept unlike planes carrying bombs and missiles and are significantly cheaper to boot than the munitions you would use otherwise , let alone the cost of an entire flight sortie to deliver them , as well as not requiring expensive pilots that need to be paid and fed and transported and protected and maintained 3 It is significantly easier to avoid detection systems by using stealth since it is significantly easier to make a ship the fraction the size of a super carrier that doesn ' t need to worry about planes taking off and landing from it stealthy than it is the aforementioned aircraft carrier . This would drastically increase survivability . Etc , etc . The point being , that with the tactical and operational constraints in question , the Zumwalt is just a much more attractive option in a lot , although not all , cases with regards to coastal fire support . You will always have to face the issue of coastal defenses in the past they were longrange naval guns used in coastal fortresses , in the modern day they are longrange antiship missiles . The question becomes how to maximize probability of mission success while minimizing probable losses .