[Tonytitan]

I’m old enough to remember when people claimed that Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles couldn’t hit US surface vessels. But they most certainly can.

The Chinese do not have the ability to provide accurate target location data to a missile once it's launched. A carrier will not be in the same location where it was spotted and it takes more than 30 minutes for a missile to get from the launch site to the carrier's last known location. By the time the missile gets to where the carrier group was last seen it will be long gone from there.

[shotgun]

Plus we have the tech ability to track where that missile was launched from and send back our own missiles.

[Alter Kaker]

The Chinese do not have the ability to provide accurate target location data to a missile once it's launched.

The US deployed missiles with the technology to do so in the 80s. Why don't you think the Chinese are able to now? DoD believes they've tested their missiles against moving ships this year.

carrier will not be in the same location where it was spotted and it takes more than 30 minutes for a missile to get from the launch site to the carrier's last known location.

It doesn't take a ballistic missile 30 minutes to get from China to the Taiwan strait. And an Aircraft Carrier steaming at a whopping 34 miles per hour isn't going to get very far.

By the time the missile gets to where the carrier group was last seen it will be long gone from there.

Foolish, irrational overconfidence

[ransomnote]

I’m old enough to remember when people claimed that Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles couldn’t hit US surface vessels. But they most certainly can.

The Chinese do not have the ability to provide accurate target location data to a missile once it's launched. A carrier will not be in the same location where it was spotted and it takes more than 30 minutes for a missile to get from the launch site to the carrier's last known location. By the time the missile gets to where the carrier group was last seen it will be long gone from there.

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Sidenote: I was moderately horrified by Trudeau's betrayal (I know, he's a creep, but still...) in granting the Chinese private use of one of Canada's former NORAD Ballistic tracking bases. A Canadian recently encountered "pilots" based there for 18 months, who told them others had been there for 3 years +. WHo knows how long they've been there "training" pilots.

I’m old enough to remember when people claimed that Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles couldn’t hit US surface vessels. But they most certainly can.

The Chinese do not have the ability to provide accurate target location data to a missile once it's launched. A carrier will not be in the same location where it was spotted and it takes more than 30 minutes for a missile to get from the launch site to the carrier's last known location. By the time the missile gets to where the carrier group was last seen it will be long gone from there.