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Every time the navy is asked about the survivability of the carrier groups they seem to start talking about the “whole kill-chain” of the enemy weapons. It soun

Every time the navy is asked about the survivability of the carrier groups they seem to start talking about the “whole kill-chain” of the enemy weapons. It sounds like they plan to knock out the targeting satelites before they could target them instead of trying to catch the missiles. Or at least thats how I read the tea leaves.

AnimalMuppet 5y ago
They're not going to target one link. They're going to target the whole kill chain. Satellites, sure, and the satellite ground stations, and the missile launch sites, and the update path from the satellite ground stations to the missile launch sites, and jamming radio reception for the missiles in flight, and optical chaff or some other kind of confusion, and radar chaff, and probably some I haven't thought of.
- vkou 5y ago
  > They're going to target the whole kill chain. Satellites, sure, So, their plan in the event of war is to make space inaccessible for all of humanity, by filling it with debris from killed satellites?
  - nradov 5y ago
    Yes that is exactly the plan. In any major conflict the satellites will be the first casualties.
  - krisoft 5y ago
    Yes. And a potential Kessler syndrome is the least of our worries when the nuclear missiles starts to fly. War is hell. A peer level shooting war would suck hard in many painfull different ways to almost everyone. Let’s try to avoid it.
sudosysgen 5y ago
If the satellites don't work, then submarines and sonobuoys will be used. If those don't work, attritable intelligence drones will be used. If those don't work, they will go for the CSG first with whatever works, sinking the AEGIS ships, and then work their way up to the carrier. The absolute trump card though is that they are preparing hypersonic intelligence drones. If those work out, they're going to be impossible to stop and there's no hiding a carrier from a plane flying past with line of sight.

AnimalMuppet 5y ago

They're not going to target one link. They're going to target the whole kill chain. Satellites, sure, and the satellite ground stations, and the missile launch sites, and the update path from the satellite ground stations to the missile launch sites, and jamming radio reception for the missiles in flight, and optical chaff or some other kind of confusion, and radar chaff, and probably some I haven't thought of.

vkou 5y ago
> They're going to target the whole kill chain. Satellites, sure, So, their plan in the event of war is to make space inaccessible for all of humanity, by filling it with debris from killed satellites?
- nradov 5y ago
  Yes that is exactly the plan. In any major conflict the satellites will be the first casualties.
- krisoft 5y ago
  Yes. And a potential Kessler syndrome is the least of our worries when the nuclear missiles starts to fly. War is hell. A peer level shooting war would suck hard in many painfull different ways to almost everyone. Let’s try to avoid it.

sudosysgen 5y ago

If the satellites don't work, then submarines and sonobuoys will be used. If those don't work, attritable intelligence drones will be used. If those don't work, they will go for the CSG first with whatever works, sinking the AEGIS ships, and then work their way up to the carrier. The absolute trump card though is that they are preparing hypersonic intelligence drones. If those work out, they're going to be impossible to stop and there's no hiding a carrier from a plane flying past with line of sight.