But let's not forget the bigger nation just to the North of the midget.
And they DO have an anti-ship missle we most likely cannot stop. Their "Sunburn" does mach 4, while traveling a dozen yards or so from the sea surface. Of course, according to this same Northerly neighbor's own published, stated, military plans & goals, they won't think they will be fully "ready" to confront the USA for about another twenty years or so...
Thank you Bill Clinton and the DNC for pushing that Loral/Hughes transfer of missle tech to the Chicoms. All the little Democrat congress critters stood up on their hind legs and told us that "the sensitive parts" of the technology would be "guarded".
Hey Bill---guard this! (the bastard should be tried for treason then executed, along with many industrialists that were involved, plus the members of the DNC who pushed such idiocy)
Unfortunatly, those whom will suffer for THAT deal, won't only (or even?) be those whom so foolishly made the deal.
Did a little digging on sunburn. While it looks impressive, I believe it would only be effective in a sneak attack. I'm not an expert, but they say it would take five to sink a 20,000 ton merchantman. One might damage a destroyer, but may not sink it. A carrier weighs in at over 90,000 tons. It's gonna take a few. To disable a carrier strike group, you're talking about a bunch of missiles.
The sunburn is very fast, moving skimming the sea at about mach 2.5. However, it's not impossible for our active defenses, missiles from cruisers and destroyers, missiles from aircraft, or the point defense systems to take them out. Without some warning, it would be very difficult, but not necessarily impossible.
However, if it's not a surprise, in other words our ships were in a war time environment. The E2 hawkeyes would be airborne and keeping watch quite some distance from the fleet. The fact is enemy boats would be very unlikely to get within launch range. If it did, the US Navy has a number of counter measures to defeat active radar homing.
The chinese would have to keep in mind, if they fail to take out the carrier, the return fire will probably sink most of their fleet.
I take them seriously, but I also remember all the information on the MIG 25. Best fighter in the world. It was faster and flew higher than anything we had...except it didn't live up to the billing. Syria flying MIG 25s was trumped by Israel flying F15 and F16s.
Be alert- absolutely. Let it stop us - no way.