Friday, April 26, 2019

This Is How Russia And China Will Sink America's Aircraft Carriers

Top to bottom: USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) alongside Nimitz class carriers USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) & USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). Pinterest

Robert Farley, National Interest: RIP Aircraft Carrier: How Russia or China Could Send These Warships to the Bottom

A few ideas.

In the event of a conflict, U.S. Navy admirals and the U.S. president may grow so concerned about the vulnerability of carriers that they don’t use them assertively and effectively.

Aircraft carriers have been the primary capital ship of naval combat since the 1940s, and remain the currency of modern naval power. But for nearly as long as carriers have existed, navies have developed plans to defeat them. The details of these plans have changed over time, but the principles remain the same. And some have argued that the balance of military technology is shifting irrevocably away from the carrier, driven primarily by Chinese and Russian innovation.

So let’s say you want to kill an aircraft carrier. How would you go about it?

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WNU Editor: Absent nuclear weapons, I see a lot of missiles targeting Americas aircraft carriers in a peer-to-peer conflict.
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5 comments:

  1. Bob HuntleyApril 26, 2019 at 11:42 AM

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  2. fazmanApril 26, 2019 at 11:50 PM

    Not as easy as it sounds, not many nations have the ability to locate them at sea in real time let alone hit them.
    As for Iranian frigates ssm nope.

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    1. AntitrollApril 27, 2019 at 8:54 AM

      I'm sure it's very easy for Russia and China. They are well aware usa can dictate the waters. They are also aware that its impossible to catch up. I guarantee they have a massive and state of the missiles to sink all those carriers in ease.

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  3. AnonymousApril 27, 2019 at 5:10 PM

    ". I guarantee they have a massive and state of the missiles to sink all those carriers in ease."

    Because you can read a blueprint?


    Your degree is in ... flinging excrement like a Rhesus monkey?

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  4. JacApril 28, 2019 at 12:02 AM

    All of these are supposedly that the aircraft carrier is...alone. And that's not the case, and on top of that the AC has a lot of defense. Still, I'm happy people are worrying about our defense: our Congress will be more aware about the problem and give more money for fixing it.

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