All this talk of hypersonic weapons threatening our naval forces in the Pacific has apparently forgotten something else that China was cooking up and which was reported several years ago — the CCP’s development of SRBMs that were designed to break our carriers in half with one shot. Maybe that also falls into the domain of ‘hypersonic weapons’, because coming down at re-entry speeds onto surface targets would definitely qualify.
The World of Warheads™ is a very secret industry. I spent years as a telemetry chief on those things, and I can say that no carrier can survive the detection, tracking, and impact of today’s warheads. System fusion is all part of it, too. There are capabilities in warheads to avoid counter weapons, and, if nuclear, getting close enough for teenage sex would still render a carrier inoperative. Carriers are for beating up smaller adversaries. Peer level adversaries would sink those things in the first few hours of any war, subs too. The MIC just loves the Navy.