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> Carriers are slow moving, high value targets for hypersonic missiles. That's a BIG maybe. Hitting a ship with a missile is way harder than anyone would think
by foxyv 4y ago
> Carriers are slow moving, high value targets for hypersonic missiles.
That's a BIG maybe. Hitting a ship with a missile is way harder than anyone would think. I mean it's a floating city right? You could get the missile within a few miles of a carrier, but hitting the carrier itself is nearly impossible. Radar? Good luck with the ECM and discriminating which ship is the carrier. Optical? Laser defenses and line of sight limitations for low altitude hypersonic missiles. MITM? Good luck maintaining communications when you have a couple of gigawatts of communication jamming running.
Then, if you actually hit the carrier, the damage control on those things is excellent. We aren't talking about the Moskova here. These guys are well trained and perfectly capable of keeping those things running with huge holes in them. You are trying to sink a floating city after all. You're going to need to punch big holes and a whole lot of them.
So you maybe hit it, and maybe you sink one carrier. Now you have 10 of its friends heading to your country at 30 knots and their Air Force friends flying black things that go bump in the night that you can barely see coming and those are the things that are generally known from 30 years and a couple trillion dollars in research ago. Because sinking a carrier isn't one of those things you can sweep under the rug and deal with the sanctions. You aren't invading Ukraine, you are declaring war on the United States.
- jqpabc123 4y agoRadar? No. Satellite, GPS and visual camera guidance from a high attack angle. Hitting a big slow moving ship is way easier than hitting a small hypersonic missile. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-builds-mockups-us-navy-ships-area-used-missile-target-practice-2021-11-08/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-builds-mockups-us-... Now you have 10 of its friends heading to your country at 30 knots 10 fresh new, indefensible, high value targets coming your way. Scary! A more likely response is 10 targets moving out of range at 30 knots. I'm no admiral but my knee jerk reaction to a proven vulnerability wouldn't be to sacrifice the entire fleet.
- foxyv 4y agoIt's one thing to hit a drone, it's another to hit a carrier group. You can't see because of laser and IR jammers, you can't use radar or datalink because of ECM. It's moving at weird angles because you launched missiles and put them on alert making your targeting solutions off by thousands of feet. Finally, you have all the secret BS that Lockheed Martin has been spending trillions of dollars on that no one knows about. That's IF the missiles are even able to position correctly with Chinese INS systems and GPS jammers running at full blast. Just saying, the fat lady has not sung for carriers yet!
- jqpabc123 4y agoJust saying, the fat lady has not sung for carriers yet "Just saying" is easy. Backing it up is not so easy. Right now, you and the Navy got nothing but words and "potential'.