The carrier's main vulnerability comes from the same source as its great strength: its large size, cost and power. When I was in the Navy, we were briefed (as destroyer sailors) that our primary mission was to take a round aimed at the carriers, and we carried electronics aboard designed to make us conspicuous on enemy radar when the caririers went stealthy. Tin cans were expendable. Without the bird farms, the rest of the task force is weak and vulnerable and loses its capability to operate and its endurance. (carriers also serve as oilers and supply depots for their escorts).
I cannot believe the Navy allowed itself to fall in this technological hole, what could they possibly have been thinking? The battleship was made obsolete by naval aviation, the sizzler-type weapon may put an end to the carrier as the capital ship of the 21st century.
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- Naval warfare bulletin
- There are at least two major weak spots in the missile design.
- 3rd weakness
- What about reactive armor?
- Maybe
- No...
- It all depends on how much momentum change is required to detonate the missile.
- You missed my point by a mile. (n/t)
- It all depends on how much momentum change is required to detonate the missile.
- Ultrasonic or microwave emitters might work.
- No...
- Maybe
- What about reactive armor?
- re: There are at least two major weak spots in the missile design.
- Kind of hard to get anything past a phalanx.
- 3rd weakness
- re: Naval warfare bulletin
- We need a World Peace Accord
- There are at least two major weak spots in the missile design.