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Presumably the Navy tests how vulnerable they are to ballistic anti ship weapons and decides it is still worth it. The article sort of ignores the difficulty o
by rhino369 10y ago
Presumably the Navy tests how vulnerable they are to ballistic anti ship weapons and decides it is still worth it.
The article sort of ignores the difficulty of hitting a moving ship with a ballistic missile when you don't have direct sight.
No way would the carriers be able to operate in the Taiwan straight during a war, but they further off shore and launch air raids.
The first steps in any major war would be to blind the other sides offensive radar and satellite capabilities.
- rgbrenner 10y agothe chinese are working on the DF-ZF, a hypersonic glide vehicle... it could search for the supercarrier when it nears the carrier group, and maneuver itself into position to hit it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WU-14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WU-14 This is the last stage.. it gets launched by a missile like the DF-26 or DF-31: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-31 The DF-31 can hit California from China. So if this works, they could keep a supercarrier out of the pacific ocean with enough of these (assuming they can get an approximate location).
- sickbeard 10y agoNone of this Chinese weapons/aircraft have done any actual combat. Their J-31 (f35 clone) is a terrible at flying
- spacecowboy_lon 10y agoIts not just the CAV its the whole support structure you have to attack / get past - you would have to disable the picket ships and CAP as well and then hit the target which in its self has plenty of Point Defense.