[WLR]

CONCLUSIONS

What it really means is the Chinese want an Aircraft Carrier on the cheap and to keep the US Comitted to maintaining ours.

Aircraft Carriers in subnational conflicts are great..

Soon they will be exposed as being totally vulnerable to Nation State Attack. They are expensive and outdated by modern Anti Ship Missiles which even non nuclear can saturate any anti missile defense system.

Large Capital Ships soon will be out of date. Dinosaurs waiting to die en masse.


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[Jeff Head]

Sorry, we disagree. Massive missile attacks will be charging into the teeth of the CSG defenses. Few nations have the capability to locate a carrier on the high seas that does not want to be found, to then launch enough aircraft to go after her, and then get close enough to her to fire enough missiles to saturate the capabilities of the 2-3 AEGIS escorts accompanying the carrier, and particularly in the EW environemnt that the US is VERY good at...meaning a whole lot of missiles are going to fail to locate the carrier even if they are close...or just fail altogether.

It is not as straight forward as you make it sound. it is much more likely, IMHO, that a sub surface attack will get to a carrier, but there as well the defenses are strong.

[staytrue]

Large Capital Ships soon will be out of date. Dinosaurs waiting to die en masse.

I don't think so. The carrier battle group is a valuable asset. Mainly the carrier battle group is and will remain invincible to all but 10-15 countries. That is the US fleet (or chinese) should be able to attack and/or intimidate every country in the world except for 10-12 and that makes them very valuable.