"It makes me wonder what would happen if someone tried to instate a police state, and no one noticed."

Aircraft carriers are not obsolete, that statement is the equivalent of saying "oh look a gun, humans are obsolete". This is not the first so called ship killer missile and it won't be the last. It is just another threat that has to be dealt with.

The worst part is something they cannot recompense me for: that blackout happened right when SOCOM 4 was released, and now the SOCOM team no longer exists.

You need to remember that decibel is a logarithmic scale, not a linear scale. Thus a 15 dB difference is actually a significant change in power attenuation.