Posted on 08/27/2020 11:34:05 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Chinas latest volley of missile launches into the worlds most hotly contested body of water served as a warning to two key U.S. targets: aircraft carriers and regional bases.
The missiles launched into the South China Sea on Wednesday included the DF-21D and DF-26B, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a person close to the Peoples Liberation Army. Those weapons are central to Chinas strategy of deterring any military action off its eastern coast by threatening to destroy the major sources of U.S. power projection in the region.
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I am of the opinion that lasers will eventually make missiles obsolete.
Using tech stolen from.......
The hypersonic missiles are big trouble.
Gosh, I wonder what would happen if a hypersonic missile ran into a cloud of bomblets.
Only if you can use them Over the horizon.
Thank Clinton and Loral.
does china want to know what is on board an Ohio class sub,
an easy way to find out is to sink a carrier.
“I am of the opinion that lasers will eventually make missiles obsolete.”
The problem with lasers is total energy and time on target. If the atmospheric conditions are bad; rain, fog, etc. and/or the target is maneuvering, or very small, or reflective, all of that matters. If you fire through a cloud, the part of the beam you see is not energy hitting the target. So, yes, lasers will matter, but they are not a panacea. (Nothing is, really. Until we get force shields and a warp core where the ejection system isn’t ALWAYS offline...)
The thing about missiles and anti-missile systems, is, nobody knows how good either are until they are used in actual combat. We will most likely find that missiles only hit the target some of the time and antimissile systems work about as well. On the other hand, compared to aircraft carriers missiles are dirt cheap and you can launch lots of them simultaneously. Who cares if half of them miss if it only takes two or three that hit?
Or hunter byeDUHn.
Given the reality of modern technology, virtually anything that floats can be detected and destroyed. The sailors on those ships will never come close to the people who killed them with stealthy supersonic missiles, clusters of drones as small as seagulls or high altitude jets or space weapons. Today’e battleship admirals unfortunately will never realize in time that surface warships are obsolete. Unfortunately many brave young people will first have to die terrible, needless deaths.
Phalanx systems are awesome and proven effective in the past. But they were designed in the 70s, based on a gun from the 50s, and deployed in the 80s. Are they still going to be effective against a swarm of modern hypersonic missiles? I don’t know, but if were wargaming, I’d rather be on the side attacking with hypersonics than defending with 20mm cannons.
Well said and all very true!
Delivery from the Ohio-class sub will be in 30-45 minutes.
Or the next one is free.
Both missile systems are GPS guided, and therefore very vulnerable to spoofing.
China assumes - quite incorrectly - that their orbital systems will survive initial contact with our military in combat.
Sucks to be them.
they’ve mostly been replaced by rolling airframe missiles, IIRC.
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