[PIF]

Navy uses links with satellites, sonar buoys and the like for guidance. Being there is not a requirement.

As for China’s countermeasures - don’t swallow the propaganda.

[sauropod]

.

[Gay State Conservative]

Thanks to Red China’s ownership of Rat Party Headquarters the Chinese navy will be twice as powerful as ours in five years.

[cgbg]

Are these “experts” saying the pervert military is “safe and effective”?

lol.

[TonyinLA]

This is so stupid.

Ships move. Any sign of an attack would certainly result in the CCP navy taking evasive maneuvers. GPS targeting can’t follow a moving target. It would also be the immediate end of Taiwan, the sinking of US naval ships and/or goodbye to Pearl Harbor/Guam/Philippines/Okinawa since I doubt the CCP would just take it. Blood lust war fantasy like this serves nothing but inflate US delusions of military grandeur. The “fully operational NATO death star” known as the Uke army has been decimated by 5% of the russkie military. Think the CCP would do much worse? It ain’t Iraq.

[BrandtMichaels]

Well while I was watching this today I wondered if our Space Force also has the same type of weapon. Better and cheaper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72l6-nJuTz4

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Not if hissing tranny sailors tell the chinese where to find them.

[meyer]

Well, just to be a contrarian, I believe that China does have some hypersonic missiles. Or they could buy some from Russia, whom we KNOW has them. Much harder to defend against. And if they attack in a swarm, even harder to defend.

[Rockingham]

As one of the comments noted, the current model of Tomahawk is the much upgraded Block V. It has a range of one thousand miles and can strike moving targets at sea. With networked capabilities, it can even be fired in the general direction of an adversary and then get directed to a target by a recon platform like a satellite or aircraft, even an unmanned one.

Here's a plausible wartime scenario. China declares that they will invade and take Taiwan by a date certain. The US warns that they will be opposed, so China attacks some American ships and aircraft to show they mean business.

The Chinese Navy -- which has limited sea experience -- then puts a formation out to menace a lurking American carrier task force in the western Pacific. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a couple of dozen Tomahawks appear and take out several Chinese warships. And this happens every time the Chinese try to gather forces at sea.

Just how eager or able will the Chinese then be to repeat the experience? Might they abort their intended attack on Taiwan? Or be able to succeed if they try it anyway?

As odd as it sounds, both the US and China have fought such battles hundreds of times in detailed computerized war games and exercises. The results get analyzed and reported upward to military and national decision-makers and become part of training, doctrine, and strategy. My guess is that is one of the reasons why American submariners are touting the capabilities of the Tomahawk. As best as can be assessed in peacetime, it is a genuinely formidable weapon against ships at sea.

[DAC21]

I would imagine the Chicons have ripped off our blue prints of the Phalanx system at a minimum and that is 40 year old tech. It isn’t going to be that easy.