I can’t think of a faster way for China to be destroyed than to take out one of our carriers.
Nice post. thanks for putting this article up.
For every measure, there is a counter, and a counter-counter ... and so on.
The question is, how long before our technology ‘falls’ into the hands of the Chicoms ... in return for $$$ and power.
you have to wonder if aircraft carriers are the new battleship. buy that i mean pre WW2 a lot of navies thought the big gun ship was the key startegic weapon. quickly they learned that the BB was largely obsolete except for some specific infantry and other support missions.
i cant help but htink that if there is a next big war, the aircraft carriers will be gone quickly either from small subs or missiles or nukes.
why would china bother with a conventional warhead and have to exactly target the ship when a nuke could do the same job and blanket a big area?
Meanwhile 0bamao has an important golf game to get to, and his butt boy Gates is cutting our research and development programs.
it is a lot of talk...and IMHO, it is a red herring in hopes we will "think" they have it and thereby limit our operations out of fear of it. Pure Sun Tsu.
As it is, the us has developed, tested, and fielded a successful anti-ballistic missile defense on our AEGIS vessels already. So even if they do ultimately make one of these...or several...it will be charging into the teeth of our most effective defense.
And that defense is getting better. In April of this year (2011) we successfully tested an anti-missile laser weapon system. Not deplyed yet...but the new Ford Class carriers, the new Zumwalt Destroyers, and the new Burke Flight III destroyers (should we develop them) will all ultimately have these weapons on them as well.
Here's how that would work (in addition to the AEGIS BMD missiles already deployed:
