Dave Majumdar, National Interest: Could China's Aircraft Carrier Take on America's Navy?
China’s sole carrier Liaoning is operating in the South China Sea with a full-complement of aircraft along with five escorting vessels for the first time this week. The vessels have been conducting exercises and testing weaponry at sea in a display of Beijing’s growing military might—causing concern amongst China’s neighbors.
“The formation, which is on a ‘cross-sea area’ training exercise, involved J-15 fighter jets, as well as several ship-borne helicopters,” the Chinese Defense Ministry stated on its website. “Complex hydrological and meteorological conditions in the South China Sea as well as a cold front in area have posed some challenges, but the source said the drill provided important experience in the build-up of combat capability of the aircraft carrier formation.”
Video footage from the Chinese exercises look impressive, but such footage always does.
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WNU Editor: If hostilities break out and China sends its aircraft carrier into battle .... I suspect that it will be either sunk or badly damage within a week.
5 comments:
With the Anti Ship and Anti Area Denial Systems, the Aircraft Carrier has become just a big target, when war does come the Navies of the big powers will not survive for very long. I read recently that the US wants DARPA to come up with systems to turn regular Aircraft into drones, Kamikaze's for the 21St century. With all the high tech systems coming out these day the military is going to have to rethink every system, from the Infantryman to the Carrier, everything is changing.
Essentially the aircraft carrier is a "floating death trap" for those on it. In a conflict with any of the major powers, the entire YS aircraft fleet would be lost in a matter of hours, if not sooner. The US may not have the anti-ship weapons technology that the major powers have. As such, their aircraft carriers may last longer.
In any event, aircraft carriers may be effective against countries without capable navies. Against countries with capable navies they are very likely worse than useless. For example, should a hot war with Iran occur one of the top priorities will need to be to get any aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf out of the region as quickly as possible as when confronted with Iranian swarming tactics they will not be able to survive. As I understand it, there are currently no US aircraft carriers operating in the middle east. This could be a tacit acknowledgement of this reality. It is true that every system is going to need to be rethought.
Yeah ciws and ageis are usually turned off during conflict
Yeah ciws and ageis are usually turned off during conflict
Sink an aircraft carrier, expect a nuke, simple as that, the US would unleash all of their B2 stealth bombers, then your f$&ked
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