BLUEJACKET
Banned Idiot
Re: How Do You Sink A Carrier?
SOSUS isn't going to atrophy with the end of the CW, so even if there isn't a mobile version yet, there will be!
Even if it never was, there is a for everything! The U-2 was shot down despite the altitude it was flying at, and the PLAAF has AWACS with lookdown capability, plus the PLA has AAA (the Iraqis probably shot down some crise missiles in the '91 GW) & AD missile units. Existing IL-76s can be modified for ALASM/CM rough airstrips -it was their design requirement, and there is no way of knowing which ones they'll be using.Bluejacket, has a Tomahawk ever been intercpeted by aircraft or ADA? China doesn thave all that many interceptors with advance lookdown/shoot down. Also given the size of China's budget she would not be albe to build all that many arsenal planes. You don thave to tak out every runway, just the runways being used for the arsenal planes.
To date, cruise missiles have not been a decisive weapon. Military commanders attack most targets by other means. Until the 2003 war in Iraq, cruise missiles were used sparingly because they are expensive. The Tomahawk, for example, costs well over $1 million per missile.
SOSUS isn't going to atrophy with the end of the CW, so even if there isn't a mobile version yet, there will be!