Yeah I mean are these ships really sitting ducks now? Is there a capable defense against missles
Unless we have some sort of nuclear powered laser on every ship (for power and longevity) and a early warning system that can see incoming missiles miles away, what is the point?
And hypersonic missiles just multiplied that threat ten fold.
What about a hypersonic missile that explodes multiple warheads 5000 to 500 feet from the ship? what could stop that?
I said a couple of days ago that Russia is "losing" on purpose, but even if they aren't, they are equipped for intercontinental warfare. They can still sink our ships. They can still launch nukes. And according to some research i have seen, They are capable of launching a first strike EMP which will render our land based missiles useless. Anything launched from our subs in retaliation will be shot down by their decidedly low tech method of launching 10000 or so rockets at anything incoming. THIS is why Russia only has one real carrier. The way they will fight will not be the way we fight loser countries, and it will be for keeps.
Not a perfect defense, but if CIWS or “seewizz” (close-in weapons system) were (1) active, and (2) functioning, it should have been able to take two missiles out. Can’t take either (1) or (2) for granted when it comes to the Rooskies.
It had 3 layers of defense weapons and it still got hit by 2 missiles. The long range missiles are S-300 system, than it has a close in missile system, lastly a gatling gun system for terminal course missiles that get thru the first 2 layers.
S-300 is a very capable system by itself. No way that ship should have been hit by these missiles. More has to be going on because something didn’t work.