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I was limiting my scope to hypersonics, which are hyped compared to more conventional threats. I agree that in a US-China war, the US will stay very far away f

I was limiting my scope to hypersonics, which are hyped compared to more conventional threats. I agree that in a US-China war, the US will stay very far away from Chinese land-based platforms. The surface fleet would mostly remain outside the first island chain and fly sorties to take advantage of US air superiority.

Animats 4y ago
The Chinese land-based platforms now have more range than the US carrier based platforms. See the first article I linked from U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. If a carrier is close enough to do anything useful, it's close enough to be hit.