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To: SampleMan
You can’t win blue water Naval engagements against aircraft carriers except with nuclear submarines and/or other aircraft carriers

Google "SS-N-22". The Chinese have a bunch of them, BTW.
81 posted on 07/09/2013 3:42:34 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: snowrip

Google the maximum range of the SS-N-22 and riddle me how a surface ship capable of carrying them will get within launch range of a CVN.


82 posted on 07/09/2013 3:49:56 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: snowrip

I would remind you that the Yamato heavily outclassed the aircraft carriers that sank it in both weaponry and armor, but it came up short in range.

If you are meeting an enemy in a flat barren desert, would you rather have a .30 carbine or a stub nose .44 mag revolver? I’d take the rifle all week long and twice on Sunday.

The Sovremenny DDGs can’t survive a USN airstrike, and they will be within range of airstrikes for well over 10 hours before they close within SS-N-22 range. As I said, anyone can conduct a surprise attack once, just as anyone can be murdered if the attacker acts without motive or warning, but it gets much harder after that first round.


83 posted on 07/09/2013 4:21:03 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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