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China's production for these missiles is 10 a year because they are still refining them - they haven't stuck to a final revision they will mass produce yet. Onc
by sudosysgen 5y ago
China's production for these missiles is 10 a year because they are still refining them - they haven't stuck to a final revision they will mass produce yet. Once that is done it's absolutely feasible to pump out 1000+ a year.
And no, I'm not suggesting lobbing it around the first cruiser. I'm suggesting to approach the cruiser from a different angle, finding another ship of the CSG and build a perimeter, and then strike the center.
This is not a repeated air assault of the CSG. That's an old doctrine. The doctrine is to completely bypass the defences of the CSG using a hypersonic missile.
And no, you don't do this while the CSG is already in range, that's ridiculous. You do this when it's ~2000km away.
- dragontamer 5y ago> And no, you don't do this while the CSG is already in range, that's ridiculous. You do this when it's ~2000km away. The AEGIS Cruiser's tomahawk missiles have 2500km range. You're not even outranging the escort ships, let alone the carrier at 2000km. That's why two AEGIS Cruisers escort a carrier. -------- BTW: This magic drone that can escape detection yet provide enough intelligence to pinpoint ships so that missiles can strike their targets on the high-seas sounds a lot like an F35.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIf you could get by with Tomahawks you wouldn't need to send a carrier. And no, the drone we're talking about is nowhere near an F-35. Examples of such drones are the CASC CH-7, the Okhotnik S-70, the GJ-11, the RQ-170 or the XQ-58. Unlike an F-35 these are extremely cheap, unmanned, and have very long loiter times, meaning that they can cover hundreds of kilometers in radius or even more.