Asymptote
Banned Idiot
Re: The End of the Carrier Age?
WOW, I only left for 3 days and now coming back and see this .... you guys really went off your rockers!!
In regard to the defense and offense strategies. There is just a simple fact nobody can deny. ABL/Aegis/SM3 whatever, are mobile units. They are limited by the nature that they have to be mobile, so it will have limited range, and limited number to be carry by the launching platform.
Regardless of the real life performance, let's just assume the best scenario for ABL - that ABL/Aegis/SM3 can defeat whatever Chinese throw at their way - but what do you do when your bullets runs out?
You know its funny, even after so many decades, this strategy still works. "Human wave attack" (or swarming) in modern day can still work. With "technological wave attack", regardless of US technological superiority, it will still work. China can swarm the ABL with AA missiles, it doesn't matter the first 10, 20, or even 30 missiles get shot down, but after that, ABL will run out of ammunition, and get shot down eventually. It doesn't even matter if ABL/Aegis/SM3 come in packs, or with fighter escorts, since, they are all mobile by nature, they are limited ammunitions, and will eventually run out. And the ABL/Aegis/whatever will just be a sitting duck waiting to be finish off.
This trend has been continuing since WWII (or maybe even before that) - that superior technologies cannot win against numerical superiority. The Germans were technologically far superior to the Russians and Americans and yet they were worn down and defeated by the numerical superiority of the Russians and Americans. Then the Korean war continued the trend, then the Vietnam war again.
WOW, I only left for 3 days and now coming back and see this .... you guys really went off your rockers!!
In regard to the defense and offense strategies. There is just a simple fact nobody can deny. ABL/Aegis/SM3 whatever, are mobile units. They are limited by the nature that they have to be mobile, so it will have limited range, and limited number to be carry by the launching platform.
Regardless of the real life performance, let's just assume the best scenario for ABL - that ABL/Aegis/SM3 can defeat whatever Chinese throw at their way - but what do you do when your bullets runs out?
You know its funny, even after so many decades, this strategy still works. "Human wave attack" (or swarming) in modern day can still work. With "technological wave attack", regardless of US technological superiority, it will still work. China can swarm the ABL with AA missiles, it doesn't matter the first 10, 20, or even 30 missiles get shot down, but after that, ABL will run out of ammunition, and get shot down eventually. It doesn't even matter if ABL/Aegis/SM3 come in packs, or with fighter escorts, since, they are all mobile by nature, they are limited ammunitions, and will eventually run out. And the ABL/Aegis/whatever will just be a sitting duck waiting to be finish off.
This trend has been continuing since WWII (or maybe even before that) - that superior technologies cannot win against numerical superiority. The Germans were technologically far superior to the Russians and Americans and yet they were worn down and defeated by the numerical superiority of the Russians and Americans. Then the Korean war continued the trend, then the Vietnam war again.
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