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>> Carrier-defeating tech has been out for years Just curious what kind of tech you are referring to?

• badosu 9y ago
  Assuming there are no capable laser and railgun interceptors deployed and detection/jamming tolerance, probably ASBMs [0]. Or ASMs [1] if carrier air or seaspace is breached, carriers are heavily escorted though. If nuclear deterrence (god forbid) is broken, then I guess aircraft carriers are pretty much sitting ducks. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_ballistic_missile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_ballistic_missile 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_missile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_missile
  • weberc2 9y ago
    Even without nuclear weapons, I've got to think that countermeasures are easily overwhelmed, and the cost of a few dozen long-range anti-carrier missiles must be negligible compared to the advantage of incapacitating a carrier (at least for a top-tier adversary like China or Russia), right?
    • AnimalMuppet 9y ago
      I'm not sure. Throwing a few dozen missiles from long range against a carrier group, complete with airplanes, may not work very well. They'll have a few dozen fighters, multiple Phalanx guns, shipboard missiles, and a lot of electronic counter-attacks. I think they will only be "easily" overwhelmed if they've got an attack method that is hard for the carrier group to counterattack. That is harder than it looks.
      • weberc2 9y ago
        I have no idea and I hope you're right, but airplanes and missiles aren't implicitly anti ballistic countermeasures. Certainly there are some anti ballistic missiles and fighters which are equipped with anti-ballistic tech, but I don't have any idea how effective they'd be in a barrage scenario.