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The cost to maintain these must be insane. A quick uneducated search gives me about half a billion $ per year. Absolutely bonkers.
I have no idea if that includes crew, food, aircraft, armaments, and everything else. If it does, that's not all that insane, or I should say I'm not surprised at least.
I believe it does
Given the size and complexity of these things I wouldn't be surprised if less than a quarter was allocated to elements outside of ship maintenance. Ships are expensive as hell to maintain and always have been.
I suspect the aircraft are a big expense too. They're also expensive to maintain, and these ones are constantly surrounded by salt water. They have a lot less room for degradation than the ship does. It's fine for the ship to get a little rust, but a fighter jet probably can't afford any.
Probably but also you can probably do a good bit of proactive maintenance on them and otherwise work a bit more cleanly to keep the costs down. Can't really do that for a ship.