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There really hasn't ben full scale mass naval conflict since WW2. The Falkland Islands is the closest, and yes, anti-ship missiles proved quite potent. Keep in
by jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
There really hasn't ben full scale mass naval conflict since WW2. The Falkland Islands is the closest, and yes, anti-ship missiles proved quite potent.
Keep in mind some of the articles about carrier vulnerability are just empty nonsense. Carriers don't operate alone. The air wing gives them an enormous area of awareness. The group always has multiple ships with AEGIS and plenty of defensive missiles. A combination of a submarine and anti-submarine helicopters protects them from subsurface attacks.
It's an arms race, an important one, but it's not quite as one sided as some of these articles portray. Remember, improvements to missile technology helps defensive interception too.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago...are just empty nonsense. Are they? From time to time one can read about some submarine "popping up" almost next to the carrier, after virtually have sunken it in some large training maneuver, in spite of all the stuff you mentioned. Folklore?
- JohnBooty 6y agoParent poster said "some", not "all"....
- HarryHirsch 6y agoWhat you don't hear about much is underwater drones. I have no doubt that they exist, and a drone swarm, each drone armed with a few tons of conventional explosive is infinitely more politically palatable than a low-yield nuke to take out a carrier group.