Can it protect a carrier battle group from hypersonic missiles?
Forward-deployed VTOL F-35B’s, launched from makeshift sites inside China’s land-based missile range, might be able to, while the carriers and support ships remain beyond their reach (at least beyond the reach of non-orbital missiles).
20 posted on 11/02/2021 7:07:07 PM PDT by noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)