“An aircraft carrier can defend itself against most attacks except against a hypersonic attack.”
In general an aircraft carrier is not supposed to defend itself. That’s the job of its escorts.
And target acquisition for a missile that’s making Mach 10 is going to be really interesting and complex. Pardon me if I don’t believe the Russians are able to pull this off. More likely they’d need something in the area of the carrier to provide targeting data to the missile.
And whatever that is it won’t be able to evade the carrier escorts and etc.
“In general an aircraft carrier is not supposed to defend itself. That’s the job of its escorts.”
I should have said aircraft battle group. I worked on some of the systems that allow the battle group to share situational data. As for targeting at Mach 10, it almost certainly will include satellite systems. At the start of the war most of the low orbiters will be taken out as their orbits are well known. The Chinese are putting systems at the LaGrange point between the Earth and the moon, which is, as far as I know, well beyond our satellite killer systems. The Chinese claim those satellites have the same resolution as the ones in lower orbits, which I doubt, but they got the technology from Loral during the Clinton presidency. Bernard Leon Schwartz who controlled Loral was the most frequent visitor to the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton presidency and Clinton signed off on giving it to them when they were launching our spy satellites. We were all friends then and there was never again going to be a war...globalization you know...