Things are so easy on paper, aren't they? Who is exactly going to locate the aircraft carrier? A drone, an airplane, a satellite? Once they locate and the missi

Things are so easy on paper, aren't they? Who is exactly going to locate the aircraft carrier? A drone, an airplane, a satellite? Once they locate and the missile is launched, will they be able to keep in contact? Will they be able to maintain eyes on target? Pro tip: you can't launch a hypersonic missile from any point in the world and do it in a way that the US Navy has no clue about that. Once the launch happens, it's game on. Satellites are blinded by lasers, smoke screens are deployed, also decoys with similar radar signatures as warships [1]. Any spotting drone or airplane is as good as dead. Given that, 40 miles per hour is actually fast. In 10 minutes the carrier can be 8 miles away from the initial point. It does not need to be that far, one mile is enough, even if the hypersonic missile has a nuclear warhead. And by the way, did the Chinese ever demonstrate they can hit a target at sea one thousand miles away? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SLQ-49_Chaff_Buoy_Decoy_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SLQ-49_Chaff_Buoy_Decoy_Sys...