Inside China: Admiral says China can destroy destroyers? true or not?
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022 Missile Boats is the low cost Zerglings in the Zerg Swamp. guided by C4SRI assets.
infact I think it is piossible to rig the missile boats so that they do not require any crewing. Set in autopilot go on a course, launch missiles at a particular coordinate and go home...
Kurt
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This has to do with the old Maoist doctrine that tried to build something like a naval guerilla force. So far the idea of zerg swarming has been pushed for a very long time in naval warfare, it's a continuation of the Jeune École ideas that in actual combat failed miserably with all kinds of speedboats and torpedoboats. So far the options seem limited to terrorism, mining and espionage with such boats while asymmetric capability is subsurface or above the surface, but not with attacking crafts on the surface. The Russians had their own try at this with shipkilling missiles, but even these needed surviveable paltforms with enough SIGINT support. I don't believe small boat swarms are a feasible solution for this problem except on paper.
mass deployment of missile attack boats has its own use, situation like Iran or North Korea when asymmetry capability however small is valuable and the deployment area is suitable, especially Iran
in Soviet Union's case, they can not really on such strategy, for if the battle has shifted to the coastlines, they are already at the end of the line
in Soviet Union's case, they can not really on such strategy, for if the battle has shifted to the coastlines, they are already at the end of the line
solarz
Brigadier
Well no. Small vessels like speed boats can be neutralized via large caliber machine guns. When you factor in .50 MG bullets vs number of speed boats, the cost effectiveness heavily favors the bullets.
Since speed boats have a limited range anyway, self-rising sea mines would be far more effective than modern versions of "fire boats".
Drone submarines, on the other hand, is a whole other matter.
i think a 3k round/min vulcan gun can track a missile than it can be use against speedboat. heck few heli with suffice bullet will plug off speedboats like turkey shooting.
could you provide a source or something, where did you heard it? maybe situation was different, no other support or near some coastal shallow water, don't know
actually PT boats and Small gunboats did fine in coastal battles with Nationalists Forces, which mainly is a frigate/destroyer fleet, near chinese coast in the 50s.
Jeune Ecole isn;t a bad idea just because no one event in history has fully validated the idea.
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Geesh,
Just wish in real wars the enemy would oblige to do exactly what we wanted them to do.
Even the PLA these days frown upon these scripted events.