[Carry_Okie]

It's one thing to hit a stationary test target sitting the middle of a desert. Quite another to hit one maneuvering at 35+ knots.

At mach 10, 35 knots is standing still.

[aegiscg47]

True, but in wartime how will they get the targeting info for this weapon? The Chinese will need to have some pretty good intel to even point the thing in the general direction of a carrier, even if it has some kind of BOL targeting system, which I'm not sure it actually does have.

[Gaffer]

The problem is the missile is pretty much in terminal mode, very fast,very high aspect angle, but still maneuverable and tracking. The high angle is pretty much in the handover angle for many of the multi-faceted radars and even the CIWS. I wouldn't wanna be on a carrier that was targeted by one depending on a nearby Arleigh Burke Missile destroyer to take it out.

[SampleMan]

At mach 10, 35 knots is standing still.

To put it in perspective, you have to be able to maneuver at mach 10 and your targeting has to be extremely good from a long way out. If you are driving a car at 50mph it is rather easy to pick the open toll booth. But try getting into that lane at 600mph. You are going to have to commit really early.

There is going to have to be a radar or IR sensor for terminal guidance. Radar can be jammed or spoofed, IR can be blinded with a laser. The ABM SM-3 might even get a kinetic kill on it.