New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets

Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by gozur88 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:07AM (#12898983)

Well, here's the thing. A carrier group can attack from blue water. You can play around with scenarios, but the US navy is not going to give adversaries an easy victory by coming too close to land.

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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by jabl on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:29AM (#12899360)

Sure. But if the carrier group is "projecting power" in the middle of the ocean, who cares? Get close enough to shore so it can project its power over some militarily interesting area, and it starts to get in range of all kinds of scary weaponry. Assuming a technologically advanced adversary, and not a bunch of goons with Ak-47's and RPG's, of course.

So in the end I guess the question is whether a carrier group is a cost-effective power projection tool in the age of supersonic (or even ballistic, if we choose to believe those Chinese things are real) anti-ship missiles, submarines and whatnot. Or are they just like battleships in WWII?

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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by gozur88 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:01PM (#12903903)

>Sure. But if the carrier group is "projecting power" in the middle of the ocean, who cares?

A CBG can hit hardened targets from a thousand miles away.

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