Re: How Do You Sink A Carrier?
The "real life example",occurred in February 2008, U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, (CG-70) (assisted by the USS Decatur AND USS Russell ) launched a SM-3 missile which successfully destroyed the failed American spy satellite USA 193.. .
But Behind the scenes......
USS Lake Erie CG-70 relied on a network of:
i) Land
ii) Air AND
iii) Sea- AND
iv) spaced-based sensors
to track & establish a firing solution..
Gee... just to track ONE SINGLE 'Missile (warhead) ' in peace time required no less than 3 ships + numerous other support structure ...
Imagine in war time If there were 10 warheads screaming in at Mach 5...
Now imagine if there were 30 warheads........maybe just screaming ...
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"An aircraft carrier is a neat symbol of power but not necessarily a sign of substance, because they are so easy to sink," said Professor Hugh White, of the Australian National University and the Lowy Institute.
Actually, the successful USS Lake Erie anti-sat shoot was in February of 2008 and proved the concept in a real-life, live-fire excercise against an errant US errant satellites that was about to fall from orbit. The USS Lake Erie fired a SM3 missile that intercepted and destroyed the satellite 247 km above the earth's surface.
The "real life example",occurred in February 2008, U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, (CG-70) (assisted by the USS Decatur AND USS Russell ) launched a SM-3 missile which successfully destroyed the failed American spy satellite USA 193.. .
But Behind the scenes......
USS Lake Erie CG-70 relied on a network of:
i) Land
ii) Air AND
iii) Sea- AND
iv) spaced-based sensors
to track & establish a firing solution..
Gee... just to track ONE SINGLE 'Missile (warhead) ' in peace time required no less than 3 ships + numerous other support structure ...
Imagine in war time If there were 10 warheads screaming in at Mach 5...
Now imagine if there were 30 warheads........maybe just screaming ...
.
.
"An aircraft carrier is a neat symbol of power but not necessarily a sign of substance, because they are so easy to sink," said Professor Hugh White, of the Australian National University and the Lowy Institute.