Monday, March 07, 2016

Is Sputnik reading my blog?

Remember the story I did about the Chinese being able to go after one of our carriers (here)? Well check out this story from Sputnik today...
"The arithmetic here is simple: the main strike capability of the contemporary US Navy consists of its air wing, consisting of 30-40 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The combat radius of these aircraft is about 800 km. For the Super Hornets to able to even threaten to conduct air strikes against targets on the shores of enemy territory, they would have to take off 400 nautical miles from their targets."
"However," the analyst continues, "if the US Navy CSG were to attempt to make it to say, the Russian shore, it's unlikely that it would reach its destination, because, far from its target, it would be attacked by the Tu-22M3, a supersonic long-range bomber equipped with the Kh-22 anti-ship missile, designed back in the Soviet period specifically for use against aircraft carriers."
Then this...
"And if by some miracle the US CSG were to evade the air-based missile strike, closer to our shore the ships would come up on the firing range of the K-300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defense missile system, equipped with the P-800 Oniks supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles [known in export markets as the Yakhont, with an operational range of 600 km [the export variant's range is 120-300 km, depending on altitude]."
It's almost like Sputnik is reading my blog!

Of course they aren't but it shows that the game plan to go after one of our prized naval assets is being considered, and from a "tactical problem" viewpoint, isn't that difficult.

Anyone have wargaming software?  I'd love to see what a an all quadrant attack on an aircraft carrier would look like and if a defense with known weapons could protect it.

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