Timmy C wrote:1. A warship's value and purpose is not defined by how easily it can be sunk, but by what it can do prior to being sunk.
Of course. Then why, in most discussions and inflammatory articles, is the US carrier referred to as 'Obsolete', or in "Incredible Risk"? After all, its value is not defined by how easily it can be sunk (hardest think to hit and sink afloat today), but by what it can do prior to being sunk (dominate ocean and landmass across many hundreds of square miles).
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-g ... te-2015-10
It is the hipocrisy I am attempting to illustrate here.
Timmy C wrote:2. China's not sinking its own carrier.
Not really tracking here. They are building Carriers because the Carriers have Military and Political capability, yet the articles on the DF-21 spooky magic missile say that the USN carriers have had those traits arbitrarily wiped clean. A dichotomy to have made a primary weapon system obsolete, and then to build more of them...
Timmy C wrote:3. The US and its allies does not have a comparable "wonder missile".
I'd check the awareness here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/ctm.htm
That we chose not to pursue this may or may not be a good thing - after all, when you launch any ballistic missile, one assumes a nuclear warhead, almost instantly bringing the possibility of a nuclear response. This includes launches of MRBMs, like the DF-21.
Conventional Trident has a much broader range, and we could deploy it worldwide, so not just the DF-21 China Sea area. The reliability and accuracy of the Trident weapons system makes the DF-21 look like it was drawn on a dirty napkin with purple crayon.
Chinese carriers make great targets for the USN. With such a distinct Submarine superiority, we really don't need a DF-21 type weapon. With such a distinct Naval Aviation advantage, we really don't need a DF-21 type weapon. With improving anti-ship capability on surface craft (which we ignored for almost 30 years..), we really don't need a DF-21 type weapon.
But we could have one in Conventional Trident in relatively short order if we wanted one.
Again, pointing out the hipocrisy in the Chinese attempt at area denial being somehow instantly superior to anything the USN does.
Basically, all the articles on the DF-21 making Carrier operations obsolete or untenable are and always have been bunk, and the owner of the 'super weapon' that 'makes them obsolete' building the very thing the articles say has been made obsolete, backs up the excrement that those opinions are based on.
A new or different weapons system comes along and you develop countermeasures and/or tactics to deal with it. No different than any other new weapon system or tactics.
And Aegis is very good at local ABM.
