“The anti carrier crowd thinks one cruise missile hit would “destroy” an A/C carrier. They are crazy.”
That would depend upon what that missile was carrying. Wouldn’t it?
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Exactly. Short of a nuke, it would take an enormous amount of ordinance - or a couple of well-placed torpedoes - to sink a CV. And the delivery systems would have to get close enough to deploy, and then run through a gauntlet of defensive mechanisms, of the jamming as well as live-fire variety.
Our AA systems (especially the AA gattling guns on the smaller ships) are designed to intercept and deal with anything that get through the outer cordon and comes down to sea level (aka - cruise missile type weapons) for the final run at the target.