Excellent piece on the American Navy versus China.... Worth reading

[justoffal]

I thought this made some good sense.



Answer to How would an American carrier strike group (USS Ronald Reagan c/w support ships) fare against an attack of say 200 Chinese hypersonic anti-ship missiles? by Jay Snead How would an American carrier strike group (USS Ronald Reagan c/w support ships) fare against an attack of say 200 Chinese hypersonic ant...

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Duane Frost
, former US Navy Command Master Chief at United States Navy (1974-2004) and
Wayne Rash
, former Retired Naval Officer at United States NavyDec 15

• First of all, those 200 missiles would have to survive long enough to be launched. In wartime the US will not be waiting to be attacked, it will hit those missile bases early, hard, and often with submarine cruise missiles, stealth bombers, and air-launched missiles.
• Secondly, the Chinese would have to find the carrier group to attack it. Decades of exercises have shown just how difficult it is to locate a carrier group practicing radio silence and emissions control. The US is not going to just sail up to China to be attacked. They have better ways of attacking China if they needed to. The carrier group is designed to control the oceans. They will be interdicting the sea lanes that China’s trade-based economy depends on far beyond China’s reach.
• The Chinese imagine that they can find the carriers using satellites and reconnaissance drones. Well, the cruisers and destroyers that are part of that group can shoot down satellites in orbit and the carrier aircraft will make short work of reconnaissance aircraft and drones.
• Then they would have to be able to target the carrier in an environment of heavy electric countermeasures, jamming, and spoofing. They would have to deal with chaff, flares, smoke screens, and both physical and electronic decoys. The vaunted hypersonic missiles are surrounded by a plasma field that interferes with active and passive sensors. A miss at amazingly high speed is still a miss.
• Finally the carrier group has a lot of defensive missiles of long, medium, and short range aboard those escorts and also carried by carrier aircraft. They have short range AAA and SAM defenses, as well. They can target enemy bombers, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles of all types.
• The US can blockade China without coming anywhere close to China. Those vital shipping routes extend to Europe, Africa, and North America and guess who controls those sea lanes? Meanwhile carrier jets carrying missiles and Air Force heavy bombers carrying missiles will be attacking the Chinese navy, which will have to come out on the high seas to fight. They can’t just hide in their territorial waters and the South China Sea, which will be infested with US nuclear attack submarines.
• The Chinese talk a good naval war, but they have never actually fought one, much less won one. The US has vast experience in fighting a belligerent Asian power in the Pacific. Plus the US has powerful maritime allies with nuclear attack subs and carriers, two of whom are nuclear powers. How would an American Carrier group fare? Pretty goddamn well.

 

[Manonthestreet]

We have enough Chinese agents in this country to do serious damage. Wouldn't doubt they could shut the electricity off across the nation. Doubt China would fight the type of war we are used to