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Re:Japan to buy at least 20 more F-35A stealth fighters by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:33PM (#16432726)
I'm not sure. Throwing a few dozen missiles from long range against a carrier group, complete with airplanes, may not work very well. They'll have a few dozen fighters, multiple Phalanx guns, shipboard missiles, and a lot of electronic counter-attacks. I think they will only be "easily" overwhelmed if they've got an attack method that is hard for the carrier group to counterattack. That is harder than it looks.
Re:Japan to buy at least 20 more F-35A stealth fighters by weberc2 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:43AM (#16473221)
I have no idea and I hope you're right, but airplanes and missiles aren't implicitly anti ballistic countermeasures. Certainly there are some anti ballistic missiles and fighters which are equipped with anti-ballistic tech, but I don't have any idea how effective they'd be in a barrage scenario.