[Kenny Bunk]

Question:

If one carrier is targeted by 20 Fu Manchu's Dong Feng missiles, another 20 cruise missiles released hundreds of miles away, 10 torpedoes, can the carrier survive the 50 simultaneous threats?

There are times in combat when quality comes in 2d to quantity. Quantity us what the Commies do. They took 20 million casualties in WWII, a million casualties in Korea, another million in VietNam, killed millions in Gulags ... quantity is what these commie SOBs do.

[NeverForgetBataan]

I think that we also need to make the Chinese aware, in no uncertain terms, that if they want to throw conventional weapons with a ballistic missile.... we can do that too.

And they also need to be aware that if a mushroom cloud ever appears over an American aircraft carrier, one will appear over Shanghai and Beijing in quick succession.

[Always Independent]

Your talking about civilian casualties, it will be different when those casualties are inflicted on military troops and logistics lines. Do you think that the USN will be hiding or sitting in port? First of all where will this war be fought? If on land, they will need to be able to deploy these troops and armor and logistics. Secondly, where did they get all this naval war fighting experienece? Sending a bunch of inexperienced subs out to hunt down our fleet will get a good deal of people killed and alot of assets lost.

[maddog55]

Based on a couple incidents where Chinese subs popped up close to Carrier groups over the past few years, quantity isn’t the issue... ASW was non existent. i.e.:

NOV 2006, A Chinese submarine came close to the USS Kitty Hawk carrier group in the Pacific Ocean last month, a top U.S. naval commander confirmed Tuesday, adding the encounter could have triggered an “unforeseen” incident.

NOV 2007 American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk – a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.

[joe fonebone]

Many years ago I was following a story about a tank mounted laser missile killing system. I looked like a big searchlight mounted on an M1.....to test this thing, they fired a 155mm round from 23 miles away. This thing tracked the projectile, and shot it down with a laser beam while in flight...they did this 3 times in a row...then, suddenly, all info on this weapon system just diappeared...I would have to assume that this system is active, thereby making any and all missiles a non threat. If it can track and shoot down artillery rounds in flight, a missile is a non issue....the torpedoes are also a non issue (just because a sub surfaces anywhere on the ocean, does not mean we did not know it was there) Can a carrier be sunk? Damn right it can. I just think they are a little more protected than what meets the eye..

[Vanders9]

The carrier probably couldn’t, but the carrier group, with its layers of anti-sub and anti-air defences, probably could. I am decidedly dubious about these Dong Feng ballistic antiship missiles. Sure they have huge range and enormous destructive power, but how on earth are they going to be able to guide them?

[JSteff]

quantity is what these commie SOBs do

But it only helped in WWII. They lost the other ones. Even WWII would have been dicey if we hadn't been POURING assistance into soviet russia. And that is what kept them from being destroyed after the Germans actually made it all the way to Moscow.

That and bad generals on the part of the Germans. However, think how the situation would have been reversed had we given Germany the aid we gave to the Russians.